Artists

Christopher Adler is a composer, improviser, pianist, and the world's leading innovator in the creation and performance of concert music for the Thai mouth organ. His compositions and improvisations alike are deeply infused by his lifelong commitment

to the performance of musics of Southeast Asia and his background in mathematics. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Center, Tanglewood, Merkin Hall, Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo and at new music festivals and universities

across the U.S. by performers including the Silk Road Ensemble, red fish blue fish, Ensemble ACJW, pulsoptional, and the Seattle Creative Orchestra. Adler is currently an Associate Professor at the University of San Diego. He is the pianist and composer-in-residence for NOISE, and a cofounder of the soundON Festival of Modern Music. His compositions have been released on Ecstatic Volutions in a Neon Haze (Innova) and Epilogue for a Dark Day (Tzadik), and his improvisations

and performances may be heard on Transcontinental (Nine Winds) and

Mineralia (pfMENTUM). more

Guitarist Colin McAllister is widely recognized for his innovative concert programming, versatility, and dedication to adventurous contemporary repertoire. He has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Mexico. He is a founding member of the new music ensemble NOISE and the Executive Director of the SoundON Festival of Modern Music in La Jolla, California. His two books, The Vanguard Guitar: Etudes and Exercises for the Study of Contemporary Music and Fourteenth Century Counterpoint: Music of the Chantilly Codex are published by Les Productions d'Oz (Saint-Romuald, Québec). He has recorded for the Old King Cole, Tzadik, and Innova record labels. Colin earned the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of California, San Diego, where he is a Lecturer in Music and director of the guitar program.

Alan Lechusza (Lusieno/Maidu) is quickly becoming one of the countries top advocates for Native American multi-media art and scholarship. In 2008 he was elected to the Executive Call-To-Action Committee for the National Associate of Independent Schools (NAIS) based upon his critical work for Native American youth and education. His interdisciplinary research has been received around the globe and will be featured in 2008 at the American Technology and Music Instruction (ATMI) conference and at Kings College, London for the Opera Indigene Conference. Lechusza continues to expand his electro-acoustic work realizing the musical genre/term he has coined "powwowphonic" as a means to educate and expose the greater non-Native community to contemporary Native music and culture. His groundbreaking work on Native Hip Hop has been followed up by numerous publications and guest lectures at universities/colleges throughout Canada, Europe and the U.S. Alan Lechusza is an active multi-media artist who can be heard on such major recording labels as Tzadik, 9Winds, pFmentum Lira Productions and Ars Nova. His works have been presented at such venues as Lincoln Center (New York), The Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), New Media Festival (Germany), RedCat (Los Angeles), The Stone (New York) and American Composer?s Forum (Los Angeles and New York). more

Transport

Jack Straw Productions, Nonsequitur, and Washington Composers Forum present

Mad Trio

Friday, January 16@ 8pm

Chapel Performance Space

Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th Floor in Seattle map

Tickets: At door. $5-$15 siding scale, WCF members attend one concert in the Transport series free

"Alan Lechusza is definitely a name you ought to take note of: he is one of those rare multi-woodwind players who has truly mastered each of his axes."

- Jazz Weekly

Lechusza's playing is "big, hot and just plain sexy."

- San Diego Newsletter

The Transport series features Mad Trio, an ensemble that stretches the line between composed and improvised music. Alan Lechusza, multi-woodwinds, Christopher Adler, piano, and Colin McCallister, electric guitar, present high energy performances. The trio offers compositions from Alan Lechusza and selections from his multi-media work TRAPA and the symphonic tone poem The Birth of a Butterfly.

Supporters

Co-presented by Jack Straw Productions and Nonsequitur, the series is co-sponsored by 4Culture.

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