NonSeq: Huck Hodge
$5-$20 donation, in advance or at the door
- Abbey Blackwell, double bass
- Jeffrey Bowen, guitar
- Luke Fitzpatrick, violin
- Huck Hodge, melodica
- Naeim Rahmani, guitar
- Brian Schappals, clarinet
- Laure Struber, piano
- Cristina Valdés, piano
- Neil Welch, saxophone
- Bonnie Whiting, percussion
- Marcin Pączkowski, conductor
About Wayward Music Series
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
https://www.waywardmusic.org/About Abbey Blackwell, double bass
About Jeffrey Bowen, guitar
About Luke Fitzpatrick, violin
About Huck Hodge, melodica
Huck Hodge is a composer of "harmonically fresh work," "full of both sparkle and thunder" (The New York Times). His music has been praised for its "immediate impact" (Chicago Tribune), its "clever, attractive, streamlined" qualities (NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam) and its ability to "conjure up worlds of musical magic" with "power and charisma" (Gramophone Magazine, London). His musical collaborations include those with members of Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Orchestra of the League of Composers, the Aleph, ASKO/Schönberg, Dal Niente, Divertimento, SurPlus and Talea ensembles, the Daedalus, JACK, Mivos, and Pacifica string quartets, and numerous other ensembles.
His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and at numerous major festivals throughout the world—the New York Philharmonic Biennial, Berliner Festspiele, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Shanghai New Music Week, ISCM World Music Days, and many others. Recordings of his music appear on the New World and Albany record labels.
Hodge was educated at Columbia University and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany where he studied with Fred Lerdahl, Tristan Murail, Marco Stroppa, and Georg Wötzer. Hodge is currently Professor and Chair of the Composition program at the University of Washington.
https://music.washington.edu/people/huck-hodgeAbout Naeim Rahmani, guitar
About Brian Schappals, clarinet
About Cristina Valdés, piano
Cristina Valdés (piano) has performed across four continents and in venues such as Lincoln Center, Le Poisson Rouge, Miller Theatre, Jordan Hall, and the Kennedy Center, and she is currently an Artist-in-Residence at UW.
https://music.washington.edu/people/cristina-valdesAbout Neil Welch, saxophone
About Bonnie Whiting, percussion
Bonnie Whiting (she/her) performs, improvises, and composes new music for percussion. Exploring intersections of storytelling and experimental music, her work is often cross-disciplinary, integrating text, music, movement, and technology. Her debut album, featuring a solo-simultaneous realization of John Cage's 45' for a speaker and 27’10.554 for a percussionist was released by Mode Records in 2017, and her second album, Perishable Structures, launched on the New Focus Recordings label in 2020. Whiting is a core member of the Seattle Modern Orchestra and she has performed with the country’s leading new music groups: Ensemble Dal Niente, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, and red fish blue fish percussion group. Bonnie uses Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, and she is Chair of Percussion Studies and the Ruth Sutton Waters Associate Professor of Music at the University of Washington.
http://www.bonniewhitingpercussion.com