Bonnie Whiting & James Falzone: Second Utterances
$5-$15 donation
Bonnie Whiting, percussion
James Falzone, clarinet
Paul Kikuchi, percussion
Ha-Yang Kim, cello
Robin Holcomb, piano
Bonnie Whiting – New works
Xanakis – Kassandra
Reich – New York Counterpoint
Improvisations
Also on the program will be excerpts from Xanakis’ Kassandra and Reich’s New York Counterpoint.
Whiting and Falzone present their annual “first Thursday in March” collaboration featuring improvisations between the two of them, newly composed solo works from Whiting with inspiration from the Indianapolis Womxn’s March, and the premiere of Falzone’s Radix Ensemble, a new quartet featuring Paul Kikuchi on percussion, Ha-Yang Kim on cello, and Robin Holcomb on piano. Also on the program will be excerpts from Xanakis’ Kassandra and Reich’s New York Counterpoint.
About James Falzone
Clarinetist, penny whistle player, composer, and improviser James Falzone is an acclaimed member of the international jazz and creative music scenes, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, and an award-winning composer who has been commissioned by chamber ensembles, dance companies, choirs, and symphony orchestras around the globe. He leads his own ensembles Allos Musica, Elaía Ensemble, Renga Ensemble, and the duo Wayfaring with Chicago bassist/vocalist Katie Ernst, and has released a series of critically acclaimed recordings on Allos Documents, the label he founded in 2000. James performs throughout North America and Europe, appears regularly on Downbeat magazine's Critics' and Readers’ Polls, and was nominated as the Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. He has been profiled in the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, New Music Box, and Point of Departure, among many other publications. Also a respected educator and scholar, James is the Dean of Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. He is a Backun clarinet artist and plays penny whistles made by Chris Abell.
http://allosmusica.org/about-james/About Bonnie Whiting
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.comAbout 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/