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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, classical music, 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 STRING QUARTET 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, Elliott Carter 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, violin 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 with a degree in music composition under Jarrad and the Aspen Music Festival and School, and Melia Watras, viola 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 Recherche, and New York’s Argento Ensemble, Finale: Vivace ma non troppo which was described as “ serious, refined music “ 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