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For your GRAMMY® consideration:

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: portrait RE / Flux / Pacific Time

Best Contemporary Classical Composition: portrait RE, Igor Santos

https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/ensemble-dal-niente-portrait-re-flux-pacific-time/

Engineering:
Aphorism Studios, Dan Nichols (Flux, Pacific Time)
Aaron Holloway Nahum (portrait RE)

Album Mixing:
Dan Nichols (Flux, Pacific Time)
Igor Santos, Murat Çolak (portrait RE)

Album Mastering: Murat Çolak
Additional Technical Support: Darlene Castro, Hunter Brown

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REPOST from @Flotation_Device_KBCS:
Tonight we prep for our most exciting new music week of the year, headlined by the Arditti Quartet's first ever appearance in Seattle. We’ll chat with the legendary group's founder and first violinist Irvine Arditti about its history, its selections for the @MeanyCenter performances (which range from Beethoven to Berg, Ligeti, Ferneyhough, Clarke and a Durand world premiere), and his personal route to a career in the avant-garde, as well as his perspective and outlook at the sprightly age of 73. We’ll also preview @SeattleChamberOrchestra’s centenary celebration of Feldman and Kurtág, as well as upcoming @EarshotJazz appearances by Jessica Lurie, Anna Webber and John Hollenbeck. A 50th anniversary look at a Takemitsu orchestral gem (spiced with a whiff of German waltz) rounds out the program.

Sunday, October 11, 10pm–Midnight PDT (GMT -7), on 91.3 @KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma (streaming at KBCS.FM). Available in podcast format (with HQ audio) at Mixcloud.com. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell.
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Photo credits: Arditti Quartet (Ashot Sarkissjan, Irvine Arditti, Lucas Fels, Ralf Ehlers) by Manu Theobald, Brian Ferneyhough: String Quartet No. 3, Joël-François Durand by Steve Korn, George (Chiquita Magic, @AKWebber, Sarah Rossy, John Hollenbeck) by T.J. Huff, @SaxophoneJess via Key Leaves, Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, Tōru Takemitsu by Kiyotane Hayashi, Irvine Arditti and György Ligeti by Garth Knox, Morton Feldman by Joe Traver.

With Fred Frith, Jason Hoopes, Jordan Glenn, Aki Takahashi, @Kronos_Quartet, @DavidHarrington49, John Sherba, Hank Dutt, Joan Jeanrenaud, @Chicago_Wind_Project, @ILaubrock, @YumaSax, @MRRyanEaster, @DoYeonMusic, Chris Tordini, @SmithChes, @TokyoMetropolitanSymphony, @QuatuorMolinari1, @OlgaRanzenhofer, @PierreAlainBouvrette, @Aaron_Nevezie, Nannnnni, @HansaStudios and @Judith_Sherman on the @Kairos_HNE, @SonyMusic, @OuthereMusic, @ATMA_Classique, @NonesuchRecords, JVC, @Intakt_Records, @OutOfYourHeadRecords and @NaiveRecords labels.

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For your GRAMMY® consideration:

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: portrait RE / Flux / Pacific Time

Best Contemporary Classical Composition: portrait RE, Igor Santos

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NYC Day 1: Half a Degree of Separation

Day one in New York, and I’m already full in every way.

🥐 Breakfast with my manager, Owen, at a classic bakery in the Bronx — always good to actually engage in person! He’s the best in the biz.

🍜 Then lunch with THE Jennifer Jolley and wonderful her colleague Smee Wong at an amazing Vietnamese restaurant. I’m still thinking about it.

👨🏿‍🏫 Then I presented at the Lehman College Music Department, where Jen is making waves as chair and was an amazing host. The students were so engaged, asking lots of great questions — it was a truly meaningful afternoon. Composer and faculty member Michael Bacon even brought his film scoring class, whose students also offered sharp, curious, and thoughtful questions. Yes, that Bacon. Michael is Kevin’s brother. Does that mean I’m actually just half a degree of separation from, well, you know… 😅🥓

🥢 The day ended with Korean food in Manhattan with Justin and Anna Street, both some of my favorite people on the planet. Every single time I come to New York, we get together and have the BEST time. And every single time, we forget to take a picture. Ugh. Some traditions are apparently too strong to break. 😅 I’m also still thinking about that Korean spot, too! Soooooo good!

Grateful for good food, good students, and good friends. 🗽 Now on the train now to New Haven!

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It's album release day! Ciclo Lamarque - Part 1: Songs & Madrigals, a new album by composer, collaborator, and friend Tomás Gueglio, is live. Featuring performances by Quince Ensemble and Ekmeles as well as yours truly, this is an album that we're proud to be a part of 💛 Congrats to Tomás, and to all involved!

Purchase your copy here: https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ciclo-lamarque-part-1-songs-madrigals

Program notes and excerpts: https://tomas-gueglio.squarespace.com/ciclo-lamarque-i

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"Colors, shapes, lines, this was all like going to a museum and walking through the galleries from Renoir to Matisse to Kandinsky."

Scenes from our TIME:SPANS performance in NYC this past weekend! Check out our glowing review in the New York Classical Review at the link in our bio.

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New video!🤩

Head to our YouTube channel to hear Saed Haddad’s Le Contredésir, performed by Katie Jimoh, Matthew Oliphant, and Nick Photinos.

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#tbt time! We thought we'd take a moment to look back through May and June and share a few favorite memories from PARTY 2026 and our concerts at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen. 📸 Party pictures (1-16) by Mike McKenzie (@mmckenziephotography), Taliesin pictures (17-20) by Elizabeth Maske (@weekends.with.wright).

Party photos from @hairpin_arts: (1) Professor Bad Trip is in the house; (2) Musicians and listeners catch up before the show; (3) Magic show!; (4) Winston Choi shows off his keyboard skills; (5) Board and staff manning our merch table; (6) Mabel Kwan and co. premiering Santiago Diez-Fischer's new piece; (7-10) Audience and musicians enjoy the sights and sounds of PARTY; (11) Greg Beyer, ready for his next entrance; (12) Niente family and friends; (13) New music power couple Pianist Winston Choi and violinist Minghwan Xu Choi (looking mighty cute, we must say!); (14) Harpist and executive director Ben Melsky; (15) Chris Wild, Ammie Brod, and Jesse Langen mid-performance; (16) The end of the night.

Taliesen photos from @taliesinwi: (17) Clarinetist alejandro t. acierto en route to his set; (18) Flutist Emma Hospelhorn and violinist Caitlin Edwards before the show (😍); (19) Alejandro looking pleased with his surroundings; Nientes performing for an appreciative audience at the end of our Taliesin Promenade concert.

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Many thanks to @burningambulance for including @a.pe.ri.od.ic ‘s ‘Aus Der Nacht’ in your Half Year Roundup! A great list of new albums to check out if you haven’t yet!

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“Make us look spooky, but also magical and mysterious, and use this cover of an X-Men comic as inspiration.”
#nailedit

📸: Ryan Bennett

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That's a wrap! We hit the studio at @electricalaudio earlier this week for a post-Party recording of MURMELNSZENEN III by @tomas.i.g.s. Thanks to @taylorhales for another great session!

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