Wayward Music Series: Stephen Fandrich w/ Gamelan Pacifica & Del Sol Quartet
$5-$15 donation
Composer Stephen Fandrich presents improvisations and compositions for just-intoned piano along with a program of unusual musical pairings featuring very special guests Gamelan Pacifica and Del Sol String Quartet.
Stephen Fandrich will perform compositions and improvisations at the piano in an 8 series just-intonation, and will present two unusual instrumental combinations with Javanese gamelan. Works performed will include Iron Tears for string quartet and Javanese gamelan, and Ketawang Chroma for Diphonic singing and Javanese gamelan.
About the Performers
Hailed by Gramophone as “masters of all musical things they survey” and two-time top winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, San Francisco’s Del Sol String Quartet is a leading force in 21st century chamber music.
Gamelan Pacifica is a Seattle ensemble based at Cornish College of the Arts and led by composer Jarrad Powell specializing in the intersection of Javanese tradition and contemporary composition. “With an air of timelessness, Gamelan Pacifica has done an unparalleled job of taking gamelan music to new heights, while remaining respectful to the roots and cultural significance of its instruments.” – SOMA Magazine
Stephen Fandrich is a 20-year veteran as instrumentalist, composer, vocalist, and instrument curator with Gamelan Pacifica, composing for them what director Jarrad Powell called "the world’s first piece combining harmonic singing and gamelan." He also founded the Seattle Harmonic Voices. Currently, Stephen can be found consistently performing, producing, and creating behind the scenes at the weekly house concert series known throughout Seattle as Spite House, composing and improvising at his piano in various forms of just-intonation (the harmony of harmonic ratios), and performing music influenced by the ancient tonal colorizing form of raga in the piano/saxophone duet Outlaw Space with saxophonist William Monteleone.
About 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/