Garth Knox – Viola d’amore – Feb. 13, 2016
Garth Knox (UK/France)
Viola d’amore
Saturday, February 13, 2016; 8PM
Free pre-show chat at 7:15PM
The Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor)
Experience the sounds of an original and exotic instrument — the viola d’amore — in the hands of celebrated, virtuosic soloist Garth Knox. A colorful multi-stringed instrument originating in the European Baroque period, and much favored by Vivaldi, the viola d’amore’s full harmonic resonance and strikingly subtle and seductive sounds can be heard in a mixture of old and new music, masterfully played by Knox.
Specially commissioned pieces by Farshid Samandari* and Donald Stewart* are set between Elizabethan melodies, Baroque variations along with some newer electronic resonances by Olga Neuwirth, and Georg Friedrich Haas.
“(Knox) exhilaratingly liberated every timbre, note or noise his instrument could produce.” – Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
Program:
Tobias Hume, “Pavane” (1605)
Olga Neuwirth, “Risonanze…” (1997)
Farshid Samandari, “mémoires relived” (2016) *
Thomas Preston, “Uppon la mi re” (16th century)
Donald Stewart, “Relatio” (2016) *
Georg Friedrich Haas, “Solo for viola d’amore” (2000)
* World premiere
