Marilyn Crispell + Paul Lytton & Nate Wooley

Co-presented by Earshot Jazz Festival & Nonsequitur.

Marilyn Crispell has established herself as one of the most virtuosic and fiercely expressive pianists around, performing complex music with extraordinary precision, power, and grace. A string of successful albums for ECM debuted her trio of Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. Crispell's most recent solo effort, Vignettes, presents her at her most effusive, performing both compositions and free improvisations in performances of profound beauty.

Premier European percussionist Paul Lytton has helped define free improvisation for over thirty years in his longstanding trio with Barry Guy and Evan Parker, in Guy's London Jazz Composers or New Orchestras, and in Guy's trio with Marilyn Crispell. Gifted young American trumpeter Nate Wooley is a master texturalist who regularly performs solo and has worked with Anthony Braxton, Tony Malaby, and Herb Robertson.

Garrett Fisher Ensemble: Psyche

Friday, October 17 & Saturday, October 18. Listen to an interview with Garrett Fisher on KUOW.

Seattle composer Garrett Fisher and his ensemble return to the Chapel with the definitive version of their latest chamber opera. Psyche tells the story of wrathful Aphrodite’s quest to ruin Psyche, a mortal who is considered to be more beautiful than even the Greek goddess herself. Libretto by Thom Schramm, co-direction and dramaturgy by Ken Cerniglia, choreography and co-direction by Christy Fisher, and puppets/costumes by Tori Ellison. Performers include Linda Strandberg (Aphrodite), Ben Black (Eros), Vanessa De Wolf (the Sister), Gary Zinter (the King), Ines Andrade, Mary Cutrera, and Archana Kumar (the Chorus), Dean Moore and Stan Shikuma (percussion), Esther Sugai (flute, harmonium), Taina Karr (oboe), and Greg Bagley (bass).

SLAM! Seattle Latin American Music Festival

October 8, 9, & 10; co-presented by SLAM and Nonsequitur, with support from 4Culture and the Viva la Musica Club.

SLAM! returns for its second year with a focus on solo, chamber, and electro-acoustic music by Latin American composers of our time. This year's featured composer-in-residence is Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil). Local and visiting performers include the Seattle Chamber Players, the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, guitarist Michael Nicolella, violinist Michael Lim, pianist and SLAM! founder Cristina Valdés, and flutist Margaret Lancaster.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 8PM
Music by Jovino Santos Neto (Brazil), Ignacio Baca-Lobera (Mexico), German Cáceres (El Salvador), Jorge E. Campos (Ecuador), Tania León (Cuba/USA), José Luis Hurtado (Mexico), and Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil).

Thursday, October 9, 2008 @ 8PM
Music by Astor Piazzolla (Argentina), Leo Brouwer's (Cuba), Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil), Pablo Santiago Chin (Costa Rica), Adina Izarra (Venezuela), and Iván Ferrer Orozco (Mexico).

Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 8PM
The closing night features music for instruments, tape, video, and live electronics by Mario Lavista (Mexico), Rodrigo Sigal (Mexico), Ricardo dal Farra (Argentina), Marisol Jimenez (Mexico), Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (Brazil), and Arthur Kampela (Brazil).

Annea Lockwood & Ruth Anderson

New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood directs an all-star Seattle ensemble in her gorgeous classic Thousand Year Dreaming, a rarely heard major work (originally released on Nonseq's ¿What Next? label, recently reissued by Pogus). Ruth Anderson, a pioneer of electronic and electroacoustic music, presents I Come Out of Your Sleep (1997), a haunting four-channel sound poem based entirely on whispered vowel phonemes in Louise Bogan's poem "Little Lobelia's Song."