Who We Are
We are a welcoming group of musicians from all backgrounds who play for the love of making and sharing music.
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We are you. We are teachers and engineers and students. Some of us have played professionally. Some of us have never played since high school. All of us have a love of music.
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Our conductor. |
Marcin Pączkowski is a composer, conductor, and digital artist, 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 realtime gesture control using accelerometers have been performed at the Music of Today concert series in Seattle, Washington, Northwest Percussion Festival in Ashland, Oregon, and at the Audio Art festival in Kraków, Poland.
As a conductor he is involved in performing new music and premiering new works. He is the conductor and co-director of Inverted Space, a Seattle-based new music collective. He is also the music director of the Evergreen Community Orchestra in Everett, Washington and co-founder of the contemporary chamber vocal ensemble Pogratulujmy Mrówkom in Kraków, Poland. He received his PhD from the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He also received Masters’ degrees from the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland (composition and conducting), and from University of Washington in Seattle, Washington (composition). He was a grant recipient from Polish Institute of Music and Dance and from Lesser Poland Scholarship Foundation Sapere Auso. Steven Utt is our rehearsal conductor.
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Our rehearsal conductor.
Our board.
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♫ President: Gwen Parker
♫ Vice President: Alicia Ochsner ♫ Treasurer: Chris Hartzog Secretary and ♫ Taker: Justine Goble ♫ Publicity: Kerry Rasmussen ♫ Librarian: Michael Coats ♫ Members-at-large: Mark Wick, T.J. Dunn |
Our performance space.
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We rent space at the Northwest Music Hall with the gracious cooperation of the Snohomish County Music Project.
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