Sandra Layman, violinist and violist, studied violin with Werner Lywen (then concertmaster, Washington DC National Symphony), Paul Zukofsky (at the New England Conservatory), Martin Friedmann (longtime member, Seattle Symphony), Stanley Ritchie (then first violinist with the Philadelphia String Quartet; now early music specialist at Indiana University), and with Petre Lefterescu, Octavian Ratiu, and George Manoliu […]
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Pianist Tamara Friedman has been praised for the depth, wit, and humor of her lively performances (Seattle Times) and appreciated as “the magnificent pianist” whose “way with Mozart reached my heart as well as my intellect” (Journal Tribune, Portland, Maine). Tamara attended the Oberlin Conservatory and received her master’s degree from the Mannes College of Music (NYC). She […]
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Mykol Colton graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in 2000, where he studied Composition. In 1998, the work Groncious was selected for a reading by the Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet. The reading was sponsored by the Washington Composers Forum, Jack Straw Productions, and the King County Arts Commission. His piece, Collage ADSR, was selected […]
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Ben Larson has been writing and performing music in the Pacific Northwest for the past several years. Recently Larson has turned towards improvisational electronic music and loop based composition performing in Seattle, and in Vancouver B.C. as part of the Vancouver New Music Mixtophonics series. He studied philosophy and biology at The Evergreen State College; […]
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Mark Polishook directed the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University. He’s been a professor of jazz piano at the University of Maine at Augusta and a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the Crakow Academy of Music in Poland. Dr. Polishook has been a resident artist in the Aarhus Computer Science Department, at STEIM […]
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Bob Rees graduated from Eastern Washington University with degrees in Music Education and Percussion Performance and a Master’s degree in Music and Music Education from Anderson University. Originally from Spokane, Bob relocated to Seattle, where he’s been an integral part of the area’s music community for more than twenty years. Bob is a Yamaha national […]
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Amy Caron is an uber-multidisciplinary artist based in Salt Lake City. A gifted athlete, Amy spent her formative years excelling in gymnastics and figure skating. Shortly after she began underage drinking, Amy ditched the candy sports for the pure adrenaline rush of aerial ski jumping and went on to compete at the World Cup level […]
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Bill Moyer co-founded the Backbone Campaign in 2003 with friends from an artist affinity group. He has dual and intersecting paths as both an activist and artist. His involvement with social change work stretches back to the ’80s, when as a student he was deeply involved in the anti-nuclear movement and the anti-interventionist movement. After […]
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After a six-year run in New York City as the frontman of indie dance band LEGS, composer and performer Tito Ramsey is back in Seattle writing crisp pop songs tethering instruments to pedals and pairing falsetto flourishes with electronics until a web of machinery, movement, energy, and mood emerges. Tito draws on formal training and a […]
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Nacha Mendez grew up in the tiny border town of La Union, in southern New Mexico. She is Chiricahua Apache and Mexican. She began singing and playing the guitar at an early age. She learned traditional Ranchera canción from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso with her cousins, the Black Brothers, […]
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