James is part of the curatorial and programming team for NUMUS Northwest, a day-long event dedicated to the creation, performance, and experience of new music. 

The Schedule

8:30-9:00 Registration, coffee, & bagels

9:00-9:15 Welcome (PONCHO Hall)

9:30-10:30 New Music Speed Dating (PONCHO Hall)

11:00-11:50 The Other Side of the Inbox: Media perspectives on new music (City Arts Magazine, Second Inversion, KING FM, WFMT)

12:00-12:50 Where the Wild Things Are: The new age of organizations and audiences (Andrew Goldstein)

1:00-2:30 Lunch break

• By appointment: Ask A Fundraiser (Rose Bellini)

• Drop-in: Neal Kosaly-Meyer plays Gradus: for Fux, Tesla and Milo the Wrestler, a piano composition in perpetual progress

2:30-3:30 Afternoon concert: Younge, Arias, Molk, Akiho (PONCHO Hall)

4:00-4:50 Why Are Women Composers stuck talking about being Women Composers? An homage to Pauline Oliveros/Where do we go now? (Lily Shababi)

5:00-5:50 Funders on Funding: 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and others in discussion with Kevin Clark

6:00-7:30 Dinner break

8:00-9:30 Evening concert: Eaton, Soper, Furrer, Lang, Mazzoli, Triptet (PONCHO Hall)