UW School of Music & DXARTS: Music of Today w/ Bonnie Whiting & Cristina Valdés

Joël-François Durand — La mesure des choses
Huck Hodge — Fracture
Sofia Gubaidulina — Rumore e Silenzio

Bonnie Whiting, percussion
Cristina Valdés, keyboards

Joël-François Durand – La mesure des choses mvt. IV "La mesure du temps" (world premiere)
Huck Hodge – Fracture (world premiere)
Sofia Gubaidulina – Rumore e Silenzio

The University of Washington School of Music and The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) co-sponsor the Music of Today Series featuring groundbreaking new works and modern classics by UW faculty and guest composers.

About DXARTS (UW)

DXARTS is a ground-breaking department of creative practice-based research. Our mission is to support and empower new generations of artists who reimagine our emerging relationships with new technologies. As a department, DXARTS challenges current trends, develops new approaches to artistic discovery, embraces diversity, and looks towards the future while critically engaging with traditional forms. We strive to probe the unknown through experimentation across media and disciplines.

https://dxarts.washington.edu/

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.com

About Cristina Valdés

https://music.washington.edu/people/cristina-valdes