Classical pianist in Seattle, WA.  
email: jesse (at) seattlepianoteacher (dot) com


Concert Pianist
New Music Lover
Piano Professor

The music of award-winning composer Greg Bartholomew is frequently performed across the United States and in Canada, Australia and Europe by such highly acclaimed choral ensembles as Seattle Pro Musica, Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble, and Connecticut Choral Artists (CONCORA). NPR classical music reviewer Tom Manoff called Bartholomew “a fine composer not afraid of accessibility.”

A Finalist for the 2012 American Prize in Choral Composition, Bartholomew served as the 2012/2013 Composer in Residence for the Cascadian Chorale.

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1957, Bartholomew earned degrees from the College of William & Mary and the University of Washington. His music is published by ART OF SOUND MUSIC, ARS NOVA PRESS, IMAGINE MUSIC, ORPHEUS MUSIC and BURKE & BAGLEY.

Awards and Honors
✪	Finalist for the 2012 American Prize in Choral Composition
✪	Winner of the 2012 Cheryl A. Spector Prize for the First Suite from Razumov 
✪	ChoralNet CCMC Composer of the Month for April 2012
✪	Winner of the Silver Platter Repertoire Award in March 2012 for The Tree 
✪	Finalist in the 2010 Seghizzi Choral Festival Composition Competition for The Tree. 
✪	Honorable Mention in both the 2010 Pathways Contest for Summer Suite and the 2010 Fusion Contest for The Far North Land. 
✪	First Place in the 2006 Orpheus Music Composition Competition for Beneath the Apple Tree for viola da gamba and recorder
✪	Winner of the Masterworks Prize from ERM Media in 2005 and 2006 for the First Suite from Razumov and On the Ground Where We Live

Commercial Recordings 
* The Tree recorded by The Esoterics 
* Summer Suite was recorded by internationally acclaimed trumpet solo artist James Ackley for his 2012 CD: New American Works for Trumpet.
* String Trio for George Crumb is available on the Langroise Trio’s CD Volante. MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL says, “You will enjoy this work immensely and want to hear more.”
* On the Ground Where We Live was recorded by the Czech Philharmonic for the Masterworks of the New Era CD series. 
* The First Suite from Razumov was recorded by members of the Kiev Philharmonic, for the Masterworks of the New Era CD series. 
* Bartholomew’s choral setting of excerpts from Kofi Annan’s Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, The 21st Century (A Girl Born in Afghanistan), is available on CD from Connecticut Choral Artists (CONCORA). 
* The Ars Brunensis Chorus recording of Bartholomew’s three choral settings From the Odes of Solomon is available from Capstone Records.

For further information visit www.gregbartholomew.com.

The music of composer Nina C. Young (b.1984) is characterized by an acute sensitivity to tone color, manifested in aural images of vibrant, arresting immediacy. Her experience in the electronic music studio informs her acoustic work, which takes as its given not melody and harmony, but sound itself, continuously metamorphosing from one state to another. Her musical voice draws from elements of the classical canon, modernism, spectralism, American experimentalism, minimalism, electronic music, and popular idioms. Her projects, ranging from concert pieces to interactive installations, strive to create unique sonic environments that can be appreciated by a wide variety of audiences while challenging stylistic boundaries, auditory perception, and notions of temporality. 

Young’s works have been presented by Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery, the Whitney Museum, LA Phil’s Next on Grand, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series. Her music has garnered international acclaim through performances by the American Composers Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Aizuri Quartet, Either/Or, the JACK Quartet, wild Up, and Yarn/Wire. Winner of the 2015-16 Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, Young has also received a Koussevitzky Commission, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Award, Aspen Music Festival's Jacob Druckman Prize, and honors from BMI, IAWM, and ASCAP/SEAMUS. 

IN 2019 Carnegie Hall commissioned "Out of whose womb came the ice" with the American Composers Orchestra: for baritone, orchestra, electronics, and generative video, commenting on the ill-fated Ernest Shackleton Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17.  Other recent projects include "Tread softly" that opened the NY Philharmonic’s Project 19, a violin concerto for Jennifer Koh from the Philadelphia Orchestra, and "The Glow that Illuminates, The Glare that Obscures" for the American Brass Quintet alongside an immersive audio-visual installation version commissioned by EMPAC showcasing their wavefield synthesis audio system.

A graduate of McGill University and MIT, Young completed her DMA at Columbia University. She is an Assistant Professor of Composition as USC’s Thornton School of Music.  She serves as Co-Artistic Director of New York’s Ensemble Échappé.  Her music is published by Peermusic Classical.

ninacyoung.com

Kaley Lane Eaton is an award-winning composer and vocalist currently based in Seattle, WA. Her work has been performed across the US and internationally, in venues ranging from Hong Kong concert halls, to the streets of Skid Row in Los Angeles. 

Composer. Pianist. Organizer of record label Indexical. (http://indexical.bandcamp.com)

“Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.” - Morton Feldman

"...when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge." - Jackson Pollock

"I never thought of music as a challenge - you always figure the audience is at least as smart as you are. You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful." - Lou Reed

"I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes." - Leonard Bernstein


I shape time with sound. Concert music. Music for picture.

Scores and parts available on my website.

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