Tuesday, March 11, 2025 – Seattle, WA – Cornish College of the Arts is proud to present our Spring 2025 Music-In-Residence Program – a multi-day program that connects current Cornish Music Students with internationally renowned musicians sponsored by Carol and Brian Gregory. 

This semester, we are proud to host Pamela Z and loadbang on campus where they will provide mentorship and guidance to current Cornish music students. The residency concludes with a Q&A and culminating concert on April 2nd, featuring world premieres by loadbang of four student works alongside the world premiere of a new work by Pamela Z, and a solo set by Pamela Z at Cornish’s state-of-the-art Raisbeck Auditorium. 

The Cornish Music-in-Residence Program brings internationally renowned creative musicians, scholars, composers, and ensembles to our campus for multi-day engagements with students and faculty culminating in a public performance. Guest artists visit music courses to coach student work, present open masterclasses, and engage one-on-one with students, opening the Cornish community to innovative approaches to music-making and entrepreneurship. This program sets students up to thrive in the vast ecosystem of the local, national and international music community. Each residency concludes with a collaborative final performance that showcases the singularity of Cornish’s talent, alongside the brilliance of artists who have forged brave paths in the ever-changing music industry.

Event Details:
Q&A: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Concert: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 8 PM
Location: Raisbeck Auditorium – 2017 Boren Ave, Seattle, WA

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Cornish College of the Arts is a nonprofit college in the heart of downtown Seattle, offering a range of undergraduate degrees in the fine arts, including music, theater, visual art, animation, game arts, dance, and design, among others. Its mission is to provide students aspiring to become practicing artists with an educational program of the highest possible quality, in an environment that nurtures creativity and intellectual curiosity, while preparing them to contribute to society as artists, citizens and innovators. For more information, visit Cornish College of the Arts.

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, and sampled concrète sounds. She uses MAX MSP and Isadora software on a MacBook Pro along with custom MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound and image with physical gestures. Her performances range in scale from small concerts in galleries to large-scale multi-media works in theaters and concert halls. In addition to her performances, she has a growing body of installation works using multi-channel sound and video.

loadbang New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang is building a new kind of music for a mixed ensemble of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music group’ and ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’ by the New York Times and called a ‘formidable new-music force’ by TimeOutNY. Creating ‘a sonic world unlike any other’ (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), their unique lung-powered instrumentation has provoked diverse responses from composers, resulting in a repertoire comprising an inclusive picture of composition today. In New York City, they have been recently presented by and performed at Miller Theater, Symphony Space, MATA, and by the Look and Listen Festival; on American tours at Da Camera of Houston, Rothko Chapel, and the Festival of New American Music at Sacramento State University; and internationally at Ostrava Days (Czech Republic), China-ASEAN Music Week (China), the Xinghai Conservatory of Music (China), Shanghai Symphony Hall (China), Visiones Sonoras Festival (Morelia, Mexico), and the Musikverein (Vienna, Austria). loadbang has premiered more than 500 works, written by members of the ensemble, emerging artists, and today’s leading composers. Their repertoire includes works by Pulitzer Prize winners Raven Chacon, David Lang, and Charles Wuorinen; Rome Prize winners Andy Akiho and Paula Matthusen; and Guggenheim Fellows Chaya Czernowin, George Lewis, and Alex Mincek. They were the ensemble-in-residence at Cornell University through the Steven Stucky Memorial Residency for New Music, and through a partnership with the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Boston, they are the ensemble-in-residence at Divergent Studio, a contemporary music festival for young performers and composers held each summer.