Son of Rose + Wyndel Hunt + Morgan Henderson

Seattle's Son of Rose (Kamran Sadeghi), Wyndel Hunt, and Morgan Henderson perform electro-acoustic music.

Seattle Improvised Music Festival

Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur present the 24th annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival.

Friday, February 20: Michael Thieke/Kai Fagaschinski duo; Rachel Thompson/Jonathan Zorn duo; Lê Quan Ninh/Michel Doneda duo. Saturday, February 21: Lê Quan Ninh solo; Andrew Drury/Tari Nelson-Zagar/Michel Doneda trio; Lê Quan Ninh/Gust Burns/Michael Thieke trio; Michel Doneda solo; Lê Quan Ninh/Michel Doneda/Jonathan Zorn/Rachel Thompson/Michael Thieke/Kai Fagaschinski sextet.

Seattle Improvised Music Festival

Seattle Improvised Music and Nonsequitur present the 24th annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival.

Friday, February 13: Greg Kelley/Doug Theriault/Kelvin Pittman trio; Liz Tonne solo; Greg Kelley/Gust Burns/Mara Sedlins/Mark Collins/Wilson Shook quintet; Andrew Drury solo; Christine Sehnaoui solo; large ensemble. Saturday, February 14: Greg Kelley solo; Christine Sehnaoui/Liz Tonne duo; Kelvin Pittman solo; Wally Shoup/Greg Kelley/Andrew Drury trio; Doug Theriault solo; large ensemble.

Ana Cervantes: Rumor de Páramo

Nonsequitur presents US-Mexican pianist Ana Cervantes in her Seattle debut, performing commissioned works by eight composers from five countries: Georgina Derbez Roque, Marcela Rodríguez and Hilda Paredes (México); Zulema de la Cruz (Spain); Anne LeBaron and Alex Shapiro (USA); Silvia Berg (Brazil), and Stephen McNeff (UK).

Inside the Music: Music on Canvas

Inside the Music explores the world of sound through paint. Pianist Ann Cummings performs contemporary classics while artist Yael Zahavy-Mittelman paints live to the music. In 2008 the duo created a black and white canvas that expressed the shape, form and relationships of the music; they will continue with this same canvas, adding color into the process. Special guest composers for this program are Richard Karpen, Ken Benshoof and Gavin Borchert.

Subtext: Laynie Brown + Michael Cross

Presented by Subtext Reading Series.

Laynie Browne is author of seven full-length collections of poetry, a novel, and many chapbooks. Her most recent collections are The Scented Fox (Wave, 2007), Daily Sonnets (Counterpath Press, 2007), and Drawing a Swan Before Memory, which won the Contemporary Poetry Series in 2005 (University of Georgia Press). She has taught as a visiting poet in New York City and Seattle, and has taught creative writing at UW Bothell, Mills College and at the Poetry Center at University of Arizona. She currently lives in Tucson.

Michael Cross edited Involuntary Vision: after Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Avenue B, 2003), and is currently editing an anthology of the George Oppen Memorial Lectures at San Francisco State University. He publishes Atticus/Finch Chapbooks, and his first book, in felt treeling, is forthcoming from Chax Press. He is a doctoral candidate at SUNY Buffalo.