Italianissimo: new aesthetics and collaborations in the creation of music CMRC seminar with Frances-Marie Uitti

Seminar
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  • Date and time: Tuesday 27 February 2024, 4pm to 5.30pm
  • Location: In-person and online
    D003, Sally Baldwin Buildings, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to all
  • Admission: Free admission, booking not required

Event details

In this presentation, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti will discuss the music of two of the most influential avant grade composers, Giacinto Scelsi and Salvatore Sciarrino, with whom she has collaborated closely. Frances-Marie will consider aesthetic aspects of selected pieces, drawing on personal reflections and illustrating with musical examples. The seminar will also consider the influences of two other important Italian composers of the mid-late twentieth century: Sylvano Bussotti and Luigi Nono.

Online attendance

  • Meeting ID: 974 1147 1887
  • Passcode: 030134

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About the performer

Frances-Marie Uitti

Composer/performer, Frances-Marie Uitti, pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multi-voiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous legato vs articulated playing. György Kurtág, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Jonathan Harvey, Richard Barrett, Horatio Radulescu, Lisa Bielawa are among many who have used this technique in their works dedicated to her. 

"...arguably the world's most influentially experimental cellist" – Tom Service, The Guardian.