Title: core essentials (Dejana Sekulic, solo violin)


Description:

core essentials is a performance from the "Temporality of the Impossible" performance+talk series that, through the music of Saunders, Lim, Milliken, Abbasi, and Weinberg, looks into what are some core elements and characteristics of the violin that composers in the 21st century explore as essential for achieving their desired sound, timbre, melody, form…

The concert features five solo violin works:

Anahita Abbasi: Situation IV - Io E iO, for solo violin (2016-17)
Liza Lim: The Su Song Star Map, for solo violin (2017)
Cathy Milliken: Crie, for solo violin and voice (2018)
Rebecca Saunders: Hauch, for solo violin (2018)
Alyssa Weinberg: Un         strung, for solo violin (2017)

Concept and performance by Dejana Sekulic

http://dejanasekulic.com
http://www.temporalityoftheimpossible.com

Dejana plays on violin courtesy of Thomas Meuwissen (https://www.thomasmeuwissen.com)

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