Frances-Marie Uitti
Frances -Marie Uitti (* 1948 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American cellist and composer who is especially emerged in the field of new music. She has the simultaneous game designed with two arches.
Life and work
Uitti studied classical music at Meadowmount Summer School and at Boston University with Leslie Parnas and University of Texas at George Neikrug.
From 1975, she lived for a long time in Rome, where they improvised with Giacinto Scelsi to 1988, but also his works transcribed and interpreted; In 2006, she brought his lost cello concerto premiered. Later she lived in Amsterdam. She also collaborated with John Cage.
Uitti transformed the cello through their game with two arches " in a pioneering effort in a polyphonic sound that is capable of long-lasting, two -, three -and four- note chords, and thus to produce a highly complex polyphony. With two bows in one hand allows her technique at the same time legato and articulated to play to put conflicting accents and a contrasting four-part dynamic. "
The composer György Kurtág, Luigi Nono, Jonathan Harvey and Richard Barrett considered this technique and devoted their their works. In other compositions, is also required their voice, such as Louis Andriessen La Voce (which is also dedicated to her ), James Tenney Is not I a Woman? or Vinko Globokar Janus. You still performed works by Per Nørgård, Elliott Sharp, Guus Janssen, Jay Alan Yim, Clarence Barlow, Martijn Padding, Horaţiu Rădulescu, Calliope Tsoupaki and other modern composers, but also played Ricercari.
On the Ars Electronica 1990, she presented her own compositions before, based on Kepler's Somnium, in which the geometry of his work is adjusted using vice -stressed and disgruntled cellos and electronics of their composition. In her solo opera she combines music, text, video and lighting. In addition, they improvised duo with Mark Dresser ( CD release Sonomondo ), but also with Evan Parker, Misha Mengelberg, Pauline Oliveros and David Wessel.
For decades it occurs successfully in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Korea and Japan; she performed at many major festivals, time and again at the Holland Festival. She taught at numerous American and European universities and conservatories. Your essay New Frontiers was received wide; he was also printed in the Cambridge Companion to the Cello again as in John Zorn's Arcana: Musicians on Music in music or lyrics.