NEXT ON CORNISH PRESENTS THANK YOU!

Art Lande Quartet Grant Funding by: Friday, November 6, 8 p.m. It’s a major Seattle jazz event: a one-off reunion of the veteran, world-traveling, singular pianist with his great Seattle post-bop band of the early 1980s, with Dean Johnson, bass; Dave Coleman, drums; and Dave Peterson, guitar. Co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival

Jay Clayton in and out Sunday, November 8, 8 p.m. Now a fixture of New York jazz, Clayton perennially topped jazz-vocals polls in Seattle while teaching a generation of singers at Cornish College of the Arts. Joining her are old friends from all around the Seattle jazz world. Co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival Corporate Sponsor: Anat Cohen Quartet Monday, November 9, 8 p.m. Conversant with modern and traditional jazz, , Brazilian choro, and Argentine tango, the Israeli clarinetist has established Individual Donors: herself as a leading voice in jazz moving forward. Photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis Co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival Sharon Cornish-Martin Toni Langlinais Peace Symphony by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky Featuring Nouveau Classical Project Friday, December 4, 8 p.m. Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing in Japan, Paul D. Miller (DJ GAMELAN PACIFICA: Spooky) used interviews from eight survivors of the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to weave together a sound and visual portrait of one of the most powerful moments of the 20th Century. MUSIC FOR GAMELAN Performing with him are Nouveau Classical Stay Connected! Projects’s pianist Sugar Vendil and cellist Kivie www.cornish.edu/presents Cahn-Lipman. Facebook: Cornish Presents AND Twitter: @CornishPresents Cornish Presents: GAMELAN PACIFICA: MUSIC BIOS CONT. STEPHEN FANDRICH is a piano soloist, performed extensively across North America, improviser and composer. He has also become Europe, and Asia. Jones has received numerous FOR GAMELAN AND STRING known as a vocalist and overtone singer. His accolades as both a composer and performer, voice has brought him all around the Puget including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Sound area and the Northwest, to New York, Rome Prize in Composition from Hawaii, Canada, Central Java and Bali. Fandrich the American Academy in Rome, a Juilliard QUARTET has dedicated much of his study, composing String Quartet Commission, a Tanglewood skill and performances evolution of his voice as Commission, a Barlow Commission, the Charles Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 7:00 pm a member of Gamelan Pacifica, the Waterman/ Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Fandrich collaborations in music and poetry, and Arts and Letters, an EarShot New Music Reading as founder and director of the Seattle Harmonic with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Jarrad Powell, Director With special guests: Voices. Fandrich attended Cornish College of the Gilbert, and a fellowship in Aldeburgh Music’s Michael Jinsoo Lim, Arts as a jazz pianist under Randy Halberstadt, as “Jerwood Opera Writing Programme.” Jones is an Brittany Boulding, violin a classical pianist under Peter Mack and finished alumnus of both the Tanglewood Music Center Melia Watras, viola with a degree in music composition under Jarrad and the Aspen Music Festival and School, and Powell. has received the Heckscher Foundation Prize Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello in Composition from Ithaca College, and the As a duo, JESSIKA KENNEY and EYVIND Sage Fellowship from Cornell University. Jones KANG’s orchestral and choral co-composition has participated in the Underwood New Music PROGRAM “Concealed Unity” has been performed by the Readings of the American Composers Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov, received fellowships and honors from the String Quartet in F major, Op. 96 “American” Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra under University of Oregon, and awards from ASCAP. Allegro ma non troppo Alexander Mickelthwate. They have released His choral music is published internationally by Lento several albums on Ideologic Organ (Stephen Earthsongs. In summer 2015, an all-Jones CD Molto vivace O’Malley), including the Face of the Earth (2012), was released by the Freiburg-based Ensemble Finale: Vivace ma non troppo which was described as “ serious, refined music Recherche, and New York’s Argento Ensemble, “ by The New York Times. Kenney is a vocalist with soprano Sharon Harms & tenor Zach known for her haunting timbres and interpretation Finkelstein. Gendhing Marasanja, ketuk 4 awis minggah 8, laras slendro pathet nem of vocal traditions, performing and recording with Gamelan Pacifica, Ostad Hossein Omoumi, NOVA RUTH grew up singing pentecostal INTERMISSION and Sunn O)), as well as collaborating with poets spirituals with her preacher grandfather, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Red Pine, and Anne Carson. koranic recitations in the mosque, and javanese Iron Tears Stephen Fandrich Kang is a violist and composer who has released gamelan music in school. She was half of the many albums of original music on Abduction, Indonesian rap sensation Twin Sista, and has Folding and Unfolding Marguerite Brown Tzadik and Ipecac and other labels, as well been collaborating with Filastine since 2009. worked with the likes of Sun City Girls, Bill When not on tour Nova can be found in her cafe, No Name Jesse Jones Frisell , Secret Chiefs 3 , Blonde Redhead, Laurie Legipait (Malang, East Java Indonesia), where Anderson, Christian Wolff, and many others. she organizes art expositions, micro-concerts, and readings. She is also actively involved as Descent / Pocung Jessika Kenney / Eyvind Kang Composer, conductor, and mandolinist JESSE an art and activism consultant and volunteer for Jessika Kenney and Nova Ruth, vocals JONES (b. 1978) is an American artist of wide- environmental organization, 350.org. 6 Eyvind Kang, viola ranging tastes and influences. His music has been BIOS CONT. PERFORMERS PROGRAM NOTES the Adelaide D. Currie Cole Endowed Professor- community engagement. She is constantly Maggie Brown Iron Tears - Orpheus, “drew iron tears down Pluto’s

ship and was previously awarded the Donald E. inspired by works composed in our time and Michael Dorrity cheek and made hell grant what love doth seek”. Petersen Endowed Fellowship and the Royalty enjoys working with living composers. In addition Stephen Fandrich - Edith Hamilton Research Fund. Watras has given viola and cham- to working closely with Daníel Bjarnason on his Ted Gill ber music classes at schools such as Indiana Uni- award-winning composition “Bow to String”, she Jessika Kenney Folding and Unfolding was conceived through im- versity, Cleveland Institute of Music, Strasbourg has premiered dozens of works, including new Sierra Klingele provisation which eventually became the melodic Conservatoire (France), and Chosun University pieces by Peter Schikele, Paul Schoenfield, Kendall Deena Manis foundation for an experiment in diminution/aug- (South Korea). She has twice returned to her alma Briggs and Jane Antonia Cornish. Thorsteinsdóttir Jarrad Powell mentation. A folding and unfolding commenced mater, Indiana, to teach as a guest professor. has garnered numerous top prizes in international Nova Ruth creating unusual rhythmic structures that encom- competitions, including the Naumburg Stephanie Shadbolt passes the melody amid a concealed beat structure. “Riveting” (The New York Times) Iceland- Competition in New York and the Antonio Janigro Matt Shoemaker born cellist, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, Competition in Zagreb, Croatia. She received a Jesse Snyder Descent / Pocung is a way of exploring the timbral has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute Jackie An and tonal qualities of the modal system of slendro, Philharmonic, Toronto and Iceland Symphonies, of Music, a Master of Music from The Juilliard Astrid Vinje as well as an experiential method of questioning the among others, and her recital and chamber School and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from epistemes used by musicians for internalized and music performances have taken her across the SUNY Stony Brook. Her principal teachers practical mapping of intonation and melodic con- US, Europe and Asia. Following the release of include Richard Aaron, Tanya L. Carey, Colin Carr tour/weight. her debut recording of Britten’s Suites for Solo and Joel Krosnick. Thorsteinsdóttir was a fellow Cello on Centaur Records, she has performed of Ensemble ACJW—The Academy, a program in some of the world’s greatest halls including of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall and Disney Hall. The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New press have described her as “charismatic” (The York City Department of Education—performing New York Times) and praised her performances chamber music at Carnegie Hall and bringing for their “emotional intensity” (LATimes). In fall classical has music to students in the New York 2015, Thorsteinsdóttir joined the faculty of the City Public Schools. University of Washington in Seattle, teaching cello and chamber music. For the past two years, MARGUERITE BROWN is a composer and she has been Artist-in-Residence at the Green guitarist. Brown received her BM in music Music Center’s Weill Hall in Sonoma, California, composition from Cornish College of the Arts in presenting concerts, master classes, lectures and 2013, studying composition with Jarrad Powell informal discussions at Sonoma State University. and guitar with Michael Nicolella. In 2013, she She has collaborated in performance with Itzhak was a recipient of the Darmasiswa scholarship, Perlman, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode and where she was given the opportunity to study members of the Emerson, Guarneri and Cavani music abroad in Indonesia. Brown currently Quartets and has participated in numerous plays with and composes for Gamelan Pacifica chamber music festivals, including Prussia and has always involved herself in a wide variety Cove and Marlboro, with whom she has toured. of artistic projects, often in collaboration with She is cellist of the Manhattan Piano Trio and dance, theatre, and film. Her score for a new a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of feature length dance theatre piece titled The Man Decoda; a group that seeks to revitalize the world Please be respectful of our performers and your fellow audience members by turning off your cell phones before the Who Can Forget Anything was recently premiered performance begins. of chamber music through refreshing concert at On the Boards. Video/audio recording are not permitted in PONCHO Concert Hall. 5 2 experiences, creative education, and BIOS BIOS CONT. GAMELAN PACIFICA has performed extensively Violinist MICHAEL JINSOO LIM has been praised Northwest Ballet Orchestra, Seattle Festival Or- compositions, while appearing at prestigious in the Pacific Northwest, as well as Canada and by Gramophone for playing with “delicious aban- chestra, Thalia Symphony Orchestra, Cascade venues such as Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, other parts of the U.S., and is among the finest en- don” and described as “bewitching” by the Se- Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony and Alice Tully Hall. Recent highlights have in- sembles devoted to the performance of music for attle Times. Since 2009, Lim has been concert- Orchestra, Spoleto USA, NationalRepertory Or- cluded the European premiere of Pulitzer Prize- gamelan in the U.S. Gamelan Pacifica is directed master and solo violinist of the Pacific Northwest chestra and the Orquesta de Camara Concerto winner Shulamit Ran’s “Perfect Storm”, a piece by noted composer and Cornish College of the Ballet Orchestra (“surely the best ballet band in Sur (Cuba). She has also performed recitals across that was written for Watras, and collaborations Arts Professor Jarrad Powell. Originally formed America”-- The New York Times). Hailed by the the United States and internationally. Her major with violists and Garth Knox. Watras’s in 1980, Gamelan Pacifica was among the inno- Los Angeles Times as a “conspicuously accom- music festival appearances include Tanglewood, expanding discography has received consider- vators in developing the resources to create and plished champion of contemporary music” for his Spoleto, Aspen, Vail, Banff and Bellingham. A able attention and praise from the media. Her perform gamelan music in the U.S. It is an active work as co-founder of the renowned Corigliano passionate chamber musician, she is a member newest disc, Ispirare, was just released by Sono and adventurous ensemble, with a reputation for Quartet, Lim is also a member of Open End, a of the Finisterra Trio and can be seen performing Luminus and features the world premiere of creating diverse productions merging traditional New York City-based ensemble specializing in at chamber festivals such as the Methow Valley, Ran’s “Perfect Storm”. The Seattle Times named and contemporary musical forms with dance, the- new works and improvisation. Recent highlights Simple Measures, Second City, Seasons, Rus- her CD, Short Stories, a Critics’ Pick, and mar- ater, puppetry, and visual media. They have been include the world premiere of Andrew Wag- sian Chamber Music Foundation, Guemes Island, veled at her “velocity that seems beyond the guest performers on The Smithsonian Institute’s goner’s violin concerto, written for Lim, and live Vashon, Bainbridge, Auburn, Cornish, Jacobsen reach of human fingers.” Of her debut solo CD Festival of Indonesia, New Music Across America performances on Danish Public Radio. Upcom- and New Lens Series. Boulding has performed Viola Solo, Strings remarked, “Watras is a young Festival, Vancouver New Music Society, On the ing performances include the Stravinsky violin as Concertmaster throughout the country and player in possession of stunning virtuosic tal- Boards, Walker Art Center, Performing Arts Chica- concerto at City Center in New York City, as part abroad. Currently she is Concertmaster of the ent and deserving of the growing acclaim,” and go, and many others. In the Northwest they per- of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2016 NYC tour. As a Northwest Sinfonietta and the Auburn Symphony called her second release Prestidigitation “as- form regularly and have appeared at the Univer- member of the Corigliano Quartet, Lim has won as well as Associate Concertmaster of the Pacific tounding and both challenging and addictive to sity of Washington, Seattle University, Town Hall, numerous awards, including the Grand Prize at Northwest Ballet. She is also a member of the Se- listen to.” With the Corigliano Quartet, Watras Benaroya Hall, On the Boards, Cornish College of the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and the attle Symphony and the Seattle Opera. Boulding has concertized throughout the United States the Arts, the Seattle Art Museum, Evergreen State ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Program- earned her Bachelor of Music from Rice Univer- and abroad, recorded for Naxos, Albany, Bayer, College, Centrum, Bumbershoot Festival, Arts in ming, and has performed in the nation’s leading sity with Kenneth Goldsmith and her Professional CRI, Riax, and Aguava, and appeared on NPR’s Nature Festival, University of Oregon, Whidbey music centers, including Carnegie Hall, Weill Re- Studies Certificate from the Colburn Conserva- All Things Considered and Performance Today as Institute, Center Stage, and many, many others. cital Hall, and the Kennedy Center. The quartet’s tory under the tutelage of Robert Lipsett. A Pacific well as WFMT-Chicago’s Live from Studio One. Visiting artists have included some of the most no- Naxos label CD was honored as one of The New Northwest native, Boulding grew up performing The ensemble’s Naxos label CD was named one table artists of Indonesia, including Al. Suwardi, Yorker’s Top Ten Classical Recordings of the Year. and recording with her family, the internationally of the Ten Best Classical Recordings of the Year Rahayu Supanggah, Peni Chandra Rini, Sutrisno Lim attended Indiana University, where he was a acclaimed Magical Strings. She enjoys spending by The New Yorker. The quartet’s awards include Hartana, Heri Purwanto, Midiyanto, Wayan Sinti, pupil of the legendary violinist and teacher Josef her free time reading, hiking, running and doing the Grand Prize at the Fischoff Competition and Didik Nini Thowok, Sri Djoko Rahardja, I Made Gingold. He later studied chamber music at the yoga with her dogs Wotan and Capote. the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Pro- Sidia, Endo Suanda, Dedek Wahyudi, Goenawan Juilliard School and taught there as an assistant gramming. As a member of Open End, an ensem- Mohamad, and Tony Prabowo. Gamelan Paci- to the . He currently serves Hailed by Gramophone as “an artist of com- ble specializing in new music and improvisation, fica’s CD, Trance Gong has received international on the faculties of Cornish College of the Arts manding and poetic personality” and described Watras has performed in France, Denmark and acclaim. Their recording Scenes from Cavafy on and DigiPen Institute of Technology. Lim has re- as “staggeringly virtuosic” by The Strad, violist the United States and has recorded for Albany New World Records features premiere recordings corded for Naxos, DreamWorks, Albany, Bridge, MELIA WATRAS (meliawatras.com) has distin- Records. Watras studied with Atar Arad at Indi- of works by the great American composer Lou CRI, Bayer Records, RIAX and New Focus, and guished herself as one of her instrument’s lead ana University and served as a teaching assistant Harrison. Their latest recording Nourishment was has been heard on NPR programs such as Perfor- ing voices. As a soloist, recording artist, and co- to the Juilliard String Quartet while at the Juil- released in late May. mance Today and All Things Considered. founder of the acclaimed Corigliano Quartet, liard School. She is currently Associate Professor Watras has championed the works of living com- of Viola and chair of Strings at the University of Violinist BRITTANY BOULDING has appeared posers throughout her career. She has com mis- Washington School of Music, where she holds 3 4 most recently as a soloist with the Northwest Sin- sioned, premiered and recorded numerous new fonietta, Auburn Symphony Orchestra, Pacific