Marcin Paczkowski + Berman/Bentley/Trebacz

Name: Marcin Paczkowski + Berman/Bentley/Trebacz
Start: 2025-12-13T20:00:00-08:00
Location: Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center

Schedule

Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center | Seattle, WA

44649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th floor, Seattle 98103 (Wallingford)
$10 - $20 donation at the door
More info: https://www.waywardmusic.org/
Solo performance by Marcin Pączkowski, followed a trio featuring Don Berman, Heather Bentley, and Ewa Trębacz in their first appearance together since their show last summer at the Olympia Free Jazz Festival.
Marcin Pączkowski, a Seattle-based composer, conductor, digital artist, and violinist, holds the position of Music Director for the Evergreen Community Orchestra. He earned his PhD from the University of Washington’s Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) program. For this performance, Marcin will explore the relationship between sound and movement. In a piece shaped in real time, blending industrial field recordings with ambient synthesized textures. This is realized by utilizing his customized motion sensor system, combined with physical gestures to create a direct and expressive link between the body and sound.
Ewa Trębacz is a violinist, interdisciplinary artist, and composer. Her works have been presented, performed and broadcast in over 30 countries on four continents, and featured in Organised Sound, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, and many other music magazines. In 2009, her work things lost things invisible for Ambisonic space and orchestra, was recognized as work recommended by the 56th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, representing 27 radio stations from around the world. In 2022 she was selected to be composer-in-residence at the 33rd Musica Polonica Nova Festival, National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Poland.
Seattle-based violist and composer Heather Bentley has trailblazed a career as one of the West Coast’s most visible improvisatory musicians, specializing in creating evocative atmospheres and textures. Classically trained, she has shifted to an unabashedly experimental artistic output. As a performer, she can be seen performing in numerous chamber ensembles that utilize improvisation, electronics, and often both. As a composer, her work for chamber ensembles and orchestras has been performed by organizations across the US. She is relentless in her creativity!
Don Berman is an established member of the Seattle jazz and improvised music scenes. A midwest transplant to Seattle after completing jazz and classical percussion studies at Oberlin and the University of Illinois, he is a highly eclectic drummer, composer, and percussionist. One of his major recorded works, Ascension Northwest, is a large ensemble composition that he wrote to celebrate John Coltrane’s 90th birthday. Inspired by one of his heroes and a fellow Gemini, Chick Corea, Don maintains a full schedule of widely varied musical projects. His feelings about tonight’s performance echo Ewa’s UW DXARTS Phd bio, which mentions “the unique interaction between human subjects and their acoustic environment.” Tonight, the Chapel space will catalyze an exciting, totally unpredictable trio performance, full of intuitive and thoughtful surprises.