Artist

Peter Garland was born in 1952 in Maine. He studied with Harold Budd and James Tenney at Cal Arts and has had long student-mentor friendships with Lou Harrison, Conlon Nancarrow, Paul Bowles and the late Dane Rudhyar. He edited and published Soundings Press for twenty years, and has written two books of essays on American music and culture. He has been a lifelong student of Native American musics, and has lived in New Mexico, California, Maine, Michoacan, Oaxaca and Puebla. Garland's musical works after 1971 were marked by a return to a radical consonance and a simplification of formal structure influenced by Cage, Harrison, early minimalism and an interest in world musics. He has written pieces for pianists Aki Takahashi and Herbert Henck, percussionists William Winant and Chris Shultis, accordionist Guy Klucesvek, the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio and the Kronos Quartet. Garland has also worked as a musician in shadow puppet theater, especially in his The Conquest of Mexico (1977-80), performed at the 1985 New Music America Festival in Los Angeles. In 1991, Essential Music in New York City presented a twenty year retrospective of Garland's work. Garland has worked with William Winant since 1972, and has had a long and close musical association with Aki Takahashi.

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Transport

Nonsequitur and Washington Composers Forum present

Peter Garland

Ensemble Works

Friday, April 23 @ 8pm

Solo Piano

Saturday, April 24 @ 8pm

Chapel Performance Space

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

Tickets: At door. $5-$15 siding scale.

Presented by Nonsequitur, the reclusive Maine composer Peter Garland is featured in two unique programs. His mature music combines elements of minimalism with folky dance rhythms and gentle lyricism to stunningly beautiful effect.

Friday's program includes ensemble works performed by Gunnar Folsom, Matthew Kocmieroski, and Rob Tucker on percussion, Cristina L. Valdes, piano, Emily Greenleaf, mezzo-soprano, Sarah Bassingthwaighte, flute/piccolo, Jesse Canterbury, clarinet, and Chris Stover, trombone.

Friday's Program
I Have Had to Learn the Simplest Things Last (1993) Songs of Exile and Wine

Symphony No. 1: "New Chants"

Saturday's program features the composer performing his own works for solo piano spanning four decades: Three Dawns (1981-82), After the Wars (2007-08), Bush Radio Calling (1992), and The Days Run Away (1971).

Supporters

Co-presented by Jack Straw Productions, the series is co-sponsored by 4Culture and the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.