CHAMBER PLAYERS

The highest goal is to combine innovation with memory, to build with a consciousness of the past. That way one can create something new through an act of will, not merely by accident
~Pierre Boulez

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The general aim and purpose of Affinity Contemporary Chamber Ensemble is to cultivate, promote, foster, and develop relationships between living composers and performers, with an emphasis on those in the Pacific Northwest. Our goal is to foster the composition of new pieces of chamber music, to provide performances, readings, and recordings of these pieces, to encourage a dialogue between composers and performers, to introduce newly-composed music to listeners that may be unfamiliar with it, and to keep the growth of new work alive in music .

Bios

		Jonathan Pasternack, conductor
	Brianna Atwell, viola
Sarah Bassingthwaighte, flute
			Ryan M. Hare, bassoon and composition
		Heather Bentley, viola/violin
	Eric Bradler, accordion
		Julie Ives, piano
	Moriah Neils, contrabass
		Mary Riles, cello
	Judson Scott, trumpet
		Brad Sherman, clarinet and composition
	Dale Speicher, percussion
Chris Stover, trombone
			Dr. Ben Thomas, vibraphone