BONNIE WHITING

Bonnie Whiting performs new experimental music, seeking out projects that involve the speaking percussionist, improvisation, and non-traditional notation. Recent work includes performances at the John Cage Centennial Festival in Washington DC, a new evening-length song cycle for speaking/singing percussionist composed by Eliza Brown and 10 musicians incarcerated at the Indiana Women’s Prison, concerto appearances with the National Orchestra of Turkmenistan, and performances on Harry Partch’s original instrumentarium. 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 on the Mode Records label in 2017, and her second solo record Perishable Structures launched on the New Focus Recordings label in 2020. Whiting has performed with some of the country’s leading new music groups, including Ensemble Dal Niente (the Fromm Concerts at Harvard), the International Contemporary Ensemble (Miller Theatre Composer Portrait series, Park Avenue Armory), the Seattle Modern Orchestra, and red fish blue fish percussion group (LA Phil's Green Umbrella Series, the Ojai Festival). She is Chair of Percussion Studies and an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Washington in Seattle.