NOW Improvisation Workshop: Bonnie Whiting

NOW Society ​Improvisation Workshops
Spring 2024 at 8EAST

4:00pm – 5:30pm Saturday January 20th
2:00pm – 3:30 pm Saturdays March 16 – April 27
2:00pm – 3:30pm Sunday March 10 & March 24
FREE with NOW Membership, Donations gratefully accepted (here).
for up to 15 participants
More information about our workshops here

March 24 – Bonnie Whiting
2:00pm – 3:30pm

Bonnie Whiting (she/her) performs and composes experimental music, seeking projects that involve the speaking percussionist, improvisation, and non-traditional notation. Recent work includes an evening-length song cycle for speaking percussionist composed by Eliza Brown and 10 musicians incarcerated at the Indiana Women’s Prison, performances on the original Harry Partch instrumentarium, collaborations with Torch Collective, and concerti with the National Orchestra of Turkmenistan. Her debut album, featuring a solo-simultaneous realization of John Cage’s “45′ for a speaker” and “27’10.554″ for a percussionist” was released by Mode Records in 2017, and her second album, Perishable Structures, launched on the New Focus Recordings label in 2020. Whiting is a core member of the Seattle Modern Orchestra and she has performed with the country’s leading new music groups: Ensemble Dal Niente, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, and red fish blue fish percussion group. She is Chair of Percussion Studies and the Ruth Sutton Waters Associate Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.