Tom Varner is internationally known as one of the top living pioneers of jazz and improvised music on the French horn, as well as an inventive and passionate composer for his different ensembles, which have featured the likes of Steve Wilson, Tony Malaby, Lee Konitz, Mark Feldman, Kenny Barron, Billy Hart, and Matt Wilson. Varner’s […]
Born in Barcelona, Marina Albero started playing music on stages as a child with her family while they toured all around the world. In her early years she studied in Barcelona’s Conservatory (El Bruc) and later in La Havana (ISA) where she finished her classical piano studies with the great professor and pianist Mrs.Teresa Junco. […]
Kelly Ash is a vocalist, songwriter, pianist, and music educator based in Seattle. Ash is actively performing as a contemporary and pop vocalist and bandleader, and creating innovative curricula for young contemporary vocalists, pianists, and songwriters who want to blend genres and find their own voice. Ash performs in the Seattle area and the Pacific […]
Seattle-based violist and composer Heather Bentley has trail-blazed a career as one of the West Coast’s most visible improvisatory musicians, specializing in creating evocative atmospheres and textures. Classically trained, she has shifted to an unabashedly experimental artistic output: As a performer, she can be seen performing on instruments like her electric seven string and five […]
Based in Seattle, Greg Campbell plays drums, percussion, French horn, and other instruments. He works in the broader jazz and classical traditions, performing with groups ranging from the Seattle Modern Orchestra to Wayne Horvitz’s Electric Circus, and with artists such as steel pan virtuoso Ray Holman, violist Eyvind Kang, Ali Birra, Vinny Golia, Lori Goldston, […]
Seattle fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld’s vibrant, expressive playing is voiced in a wide range of traditional fiddle styles, from Celtic, American Old-Time, and French Canadian, Scandinavian, and Eastern European. She has performed and taught widely throughout the US, Europe, and South America. During her 15 year sojourn in New England, Ruthie studied at Berklee College of […]
A freelance flutist, improviser, and composer in the Seattle area, Leanna Keith delights in creating sound experiences that make audiences laugh, cry, and say: “I didn’t know the flute could do that!” As an educator, Leanna has taught workshops across the US and Canada on technique and tone, extended techniques, composer collaboration, improvisation, and world […]
Ray Larsen is a trumpeter, composer, improviser, producer, bandleader and educator whose work traverses jazz, improvised, folk, rock and contemporary chamber settings. He is based in Seattle, WA, USA. (photo by Steve Korn)
Violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim has been praised by Gramophone for playing with “delicious abandon,” and lauded by the Los Angeles Times as a “conspicuously accomplished champion of contemporary music.” Concertmaster and solo violinist for the internationally acclaimed Pacific Northwest Ballet, Lim is featured as soloist with the company in concertos by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Bach, and […]
Michael Nicolella is recognized as one of America’s most innovative classical guitarists, described by Classical Guitar Magazine as “one of contemporary guitar’s most gifted stars.” He has received wide critical acclaim for his performances, recordings, and compositions as a concert artist, performing throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. Nicolella’s newest recording of his arrangement of […]