Who We Are
We are a welcoming group of musicians from all backgrounds who
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We are you. We are teachers and engineers and students. Some of us have played professionally. Some of us have not played since high school. Others are "mature beginners." All of us have a love of music.
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Music Director |
Marcin Pączkowski is a composer, conductor, digital artist, and performer, working with both traditional and electronic media. As a composer, he is focused on developing new ways of creating and performing computer music. His pieces involving real-time gestural control using accelerometers have been performed worldwide, including International Computer Music Conference in Daegu, Korea, Music of Today concert series in Seattle, Washington, Northwest Percussion Festival in Ashland, Oregon, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium in Toronto, Canada, and the Audio Art festival in Kraków, Poland.
As the Music Director of Evergreen Community Orchestra, he presents concerts of diverse repertoire to local communities. He is also involved in performing new music and has led premieres of numerous works in Poland and the United States. His conducting performances with Inverted Space ensemble include Anahit by Giacinto Scelsi, featuring Luke Fitzpatrick on violin, Flurries by Brian Ferneyhough, and Hermetic Definition by Joël-François Durand. He is also active in the Seattle-area improvised music community performing on various instruments. He received grants and commissions from Seattle Symphony, eScience Institute, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and from Polish Institute of Music and Dance. He received his Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He also holds Masters' degrees from the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland, and from the University of Washington. |
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Nsé Ekpo enjoys a varied career as a performer, educator and content creator throughout the U.S. and abroad. He received his Doctor of Music Arts in Orchestral Conducting from the University of South Carolina in 2015 upon completion of his document, "Expanding the American Canon: The Orchestral Music of Black American Composers." He currently is the Concert Band Director/Co-Orchestra Director at Lakeside School in Seattle. He has guest conducted for local orchestras such as the Issaquah Philharmonic and Seattle Pacific University Symphony Orchestra, and other orchestras in the States and abroad. When not conducting, creating, or collaborating, Dr. Ekpo enjoys performing as a stand-up comic at Seattle area venues and living the dream with his wife and three children. |
board of directors and officers. |
♫ Executive Director: Gwen Parker
♫ President: Roy Wenzel ♫ Vice President: Sally Rosamond ♫ Treasurer: Chris Hartzog Secretary and ♫ Taker: Karen Wenzel ♫ Publicity: Margot Wolcott ♫ Librarian: Don Wilson ♫ Members-at-large: Fiona Knight, Tudi Campbell |
rehearsal and performance venues, 2022-2023 |
Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 215 W Mukilteo Blvd., Everett, WA 98201
______________ Many thanks to our performance venue hosts: Everett Mall / JLL Management Carl Gipson Center Cascadian Place Retirement Community First Presbyterian Church of Everett Everett Performance Arts Center (Mayor's and Wendt Awards Ceremony) |