Second Inversion at Folklife!

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We are excited to announce our first Second Inversion Showcase at the 2015 Northwest Folklife Festival!

On Friday, May 22 from 8:45-10pm, come to the Center Theatre at Seattle Center for this FREE show, featuring the Passenger String Quartet and the Seattle Cello eXperiment. Both groups specialize in fun, genre-crossing arrangements of music today as well as original compositions by emerging composers.


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The Passenger String Quartet is an avant-garde, experimental neo-classical group, formed by Northwest composer/violinist Andrew Joslyn. The group is in high demand as studio session musicians, tours & performs original compositions, as well as backs a wide variety of regional, and national touring groups from David Bazan, DJ Spooky, Suzanne Vega, to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Ivan and Alyosha, Kris Orlowski, Doug Martsche, and many more.

Seattle Cello X logoPeter Williams founded the Seattle Cello eXpermient, or “Cello X” in 2010. It is an ensemble composed of his highest level cello students. Their mission is to push the boundaries of cello playing and to explore the sonic possibilities when eight or more cellos are brought together. Much of their music comes from original and unique arrangements of some of today’s most popular music. They span a wide range of genres, including rock, classical, movie, fiddling, video game, and pop.

We hope to see you there!

LIVE BROADCAST: Joshua Roman plays Bach

J.S. Bach is not an obvious association with Second Inversion, most often streaming new music and rethinking classical. But, as Joshua Roman says, “All music was new once,” and we’re celebrating our Artistic Advisor in a very special live broadcast from Town Hall Seattle tonight, Wednesday, April 22 at 7pm.

Town Hall took a very 21st century approach this concert, crowdsourcing the programming by asking fans to vote for their favorite Bach Cello Suite. The polls are closed, the votes are tallied, and you’ll find out tonight which suites won during Joshua’s performance!  You can listen live (audio-only) or watch the action below at 7pm PDT!

Joshua Roman is Our Inaugural Artistic Advisor!

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Second Inversion is THRILLED to announce Joshua Roman as our inaugural Artistic Advisor! Joshua will help us “Rethink Classical” with our Seattle community and with our national and global audiences. Stay tuned for guest posts from Joshua here on our blog and keep an ear out for his voice on our 24/7 stream.

Read more about Joshua here.

Read the Seattle Times feature here.

 

(Photo Credit: Hayley Young)

LIVE BROADCAST: Catalyst Quartet

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Our next live broadcast on Second Inversion’s 24/7 stream is Thursday, March 19 at 7:30pm (PDT), featuring the Catalyst Quartet presented by UW World Series! They’re performing:

Montgomery: Strum
Tower: In Memory
Glass: String Quartet No.3 Mishima
D’Rivera: Wapango
Ives: String Quartet No.1
Barber: String Quartet Op.11

Join the Facebook event and invite your friends!

Catalyst Quartet was in here in November and recorded an awesome in-studio video. Here’s a taste of Glenn Gould’s String Quartet:

Stay tuned for news on more live broadcasts, in-studio recordings, videos, and broadcasts of recorded concerts throughout the year!

LIVE BROADCAST: Third Coast Percussion on Monday, January 12!

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Second Inversion returns to the lobby of Town Hall Seattle to bring you a live broadcast of Third Coast Percussion on Monday, January 12 at 7:30pm PT on our 24/7 stream!  Join our Facebook event to find out complete details!

If you’re in Seattle and able to make it to the show, buy your tickets here!