Meeting 1 DW and FM Bell Tower - DW FM Uitti & David Wessel Spectral Match (for Jim Tenney) DW and FM Menzognie della Notte FM Meeting 2 DW and FM For Steve Lacy DW Colpevole FM Meeting 3 DW and FM Turbulance DW and FM Termin: Samstag, 04.11.2006 Beginn 22:00 Ort: MTR/STR Bühne
Frances-Marie Uitti, composer/performer, pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by trans- forming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multivoiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous le- gato/ articulated playing, that her previous work with a curved bow couldn‘t attain. György Kurtág, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Louis Andriessen, Jonathan Harvey, Richard Barrett, Sylva- no Bussoti are among those who have used this technique in their works dedicated to her. Collabo- rating significantly over years with radicals, Dick Raaijmakers, John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi, she has also worked closely with Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough and countless composers from the new generation. Frances -Marie Uitti tours as solist extensively throughout the world having played for audiences from New York City to Mongolia and appears regularly in such festivals as the Biennale Di Venezia, Strasbourg Festival, Gulbenkian Festival Ars Musica, Holland Festival and for radios and televisions in Europe, Japan, and the United States. She premeired cello concerti dedicated to her By Per Norg- aard, Jonathan Harvey and will give the first performance of the cello concerto of William Jeths in 2000. Peter Nelson is writing a work for her with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Canadian compo- ser Rodney Sharman is also composing a cello concerto for her. She collaborates with pianist Rolf Hind, classical pianist Alwin Bar, filmmakers Frank Scheffer and Frans Zwaartjes, avantgarde guitarist Elliott Sharp, accordionist Pauline Oliveros, DJ Scanner, DJ Low, and Stephen Vitiello and video master Ferenc van Damme. Her compositons can be heard on ECM records, Cryptogrammophone, JdKrecords, Seraphin, Etcetera, and BVHaast. The University of California Press has commissioned a 60,000 word book from her on Contemporary Cello Techniques. A massive treatise on the state of the art of cello and performance techniques from the Kodaly Sonata until the present, it is now in the finishing stages.Her treatise New Frontiers, was also published in the Cambridge Companion to the Cello, Cambridge University Press and for Muzik Texte, Koln, and Arcana, the collected writings of composers edited by John Zorn. Ms Uitti has collaborated with pianists Ursula Oppens and Robert Levin in classical repertory and with Rolf Hind and Yvar Mikhashoff in contemporary literature. She appeared in Frank Scheffer’s film on Elliott Carter with Ms Oppens. Also, she has worked with Irvine Arditti, Stefano Scodanibbio, Sasha Gavrilov, and members of the Ensemble Modern. As a pedagogue, Frances-Marie Uitti has given lectures and master classes at practically all the ma- jor European conservatories (Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen, Royal Conservatorium Den Haag,
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