Giacinto Scelsi – Past Concerts

Giacinto Scelsi — Tre Pezzi
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 "Razumovsky II"

Program includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Fredrick Gifford, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Giacinto Scelsi, Nathalie Joachim, Monty Adkins, Alvin Singleton, Conrad Beck, Carlos Simon, and Chinary Ung.

Max Johnson — Selected works (world premiere)
Anthony R. Green — Selected works (NYC premiere)
Giacinto Scelsi — Selected works
Evan Williams — Selected works
Alex Temple — Selected works
Andrew Hamilton — Selected works

Liza Lim — Selected works
Giacinto Scelsi — Selected works
Marc Sabat — Selected works
João Pedro Oliveira — Selected works
Jean-François Charles — Selected works
Ana-Maria Avram — Selected works

Program includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Giacinto Scelsi, Fredrick Gifford, Nathalie Joachim, Monty Adkins, Conrad Beck, Andrea Casarrubios, and Chinary Ung.

Program includes works by Viet Cuong, Emily Praetorius, Cole Reyes, Jules Biber, Giacinto Scelsi, Kyle Landry, and Thomas Giles.

Program includes works by Beat Furrer, Georges Aperghis, Amy Beth Kirsten, Kaija Saariaho, Jessie Cox, and Giacinto Scelsi.

Ash Fure — Therefore I Was (for piano trio)
R. Murray Schafer — The Crown of Ariadne (for harp)
Giacinto Scelsi — Ko-Lho (for flute & clarinet)
Jérémy Jolley — (contro-)clessidra III for cello and percussion (world premiere)
Jérémy Jolley — (contro-)clessidra IV for piano and electronics (world premiere)

Somei Satoh – Birds in Warped Time II
Anna Clyne – Beauty
Giacinto Scelsi – Kho-Lho
Sarah Kirkland Snider – Thread and Fray (West Coast premiere)
Noel Kennon – New Work (world premiere)
Anna Clyne – Steelworks (West Coast premiere)

William O. “Bill” Smith – Rites for solo clarinet and tape (1998)
Giacinto Scelsi – Ko-Lho for flute and clarinet (1966)
Giacinto Scelsi – Kya for clarinet and 7 instruments (1959) – Seattle premiere
Jeremy Jolley – Archipel… en résonnant à Venise… for solo clarinet, 4 instrumental groups and fixed media (2017) – world premiere

Works for solo guitarist dutifully following the instructions given by the composers 63 and 53 years ago, followed by a growing ensemble of players that will be alternately improvising freely and following a very open set of instructions.

Expanding the contemporary classical saxophone repertoire, Kevin Baldwin will premiere new works by local Seattle composers, as well as lesser-performed pieces from famed composers Luciano Berio, Gerard Grisey and Giacinto Scelsi.

Faculty pianist Cristina Valdes performs Helmut Lachenmann's Ein Kinderspiel and Giacinto Scelsi's Quattro Illustrazioni. New Jazz Studies appointee Greg Sinibaldi leads an orchestral ensemble of musicians from across UW Music programs through a guided improvisation.