Stranger Music Genius Eyvind Kang (who won the award in 2013 with his musical partner/wife/phenomenal vocalist Jessika Kenney) recently left Seattle with little fanfare to teach composition at California Institute of the Arts. The violist/composer/conductor—who’s recorded several solo albums and duo albums with Kenney, as well as performed with Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, and Sun City Girls—describes his faculty experience at CalArts as “pretty awesome” so far.
Fear not, though: Kang and Kenney will still appear in town with some frequency. The pair played a show at Re-bar October 16 and Kang’s recently done some recording up here, too. “I’m definitely gonna keep connected with the Seattle music scene,” Kang said in an email interview. “And Jessika and I are doing a big piece at the Frye Art Museum on December 3 [called Viscous Circle]. If anything, it could be good to connect things, communities, more. True, it’s hard to leave because I’m really attached to Seattle, but, you know, change is good and for me it’s all about learning and making music anyway.”
