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Concert...Feb 11, 2012
"A Journey...from Olde World Romantic to New World Romantic"...with some Spanish music and a touch of flamenco....
Line up is Dan Reiter [cello], Ray Chavez [tenor], Yaelisia [flamenco dancer], and Vicki T. [piano and, just for one piece, cajon].
Vicki T.
AMFA Gallery
Berkeley, CA
6.30 art & wine
7.30 concert
A Journey...from Olde World Romantic Music to New World Romantic Music. Set in a vibrant art gallery, this is a night for all the art senses, beginning at 6.30pm with an hour to mingle amongst the art and drink wine. The music will be Romantic, old & new, with a little Spanish, and a touch of flamenco.
The concert, beginning at 7.30pm, features Vicki Trimbach on piano and Dan Reiter on cello, with guest appearances by tenor Ray Chavez and flamenco dancer Yaelisia.
The night will begin with music by Romantic era composers ~ Granados, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Ravel and Donizetti ~ and then move to new compositions. Vicki T. will premiere four new works:
'Flamenco Fantaisie' for piano, 'Threnody' for cello & piano, 'A Collection of 3 Cello Pieces' with one of these accompanied by the cajon, and 'A Short Opera' for tenor, flamenco dancer, cello & piano.
Jan 8, 2011
...new piano music, influenced by my flamenco dance. This is recorded with a single video take. There's another recording from a Sep 2010 concert on the music page [piano isn't as nice]. This is the first piece where I've brought in elements of improvisation...the pages in front of me are sometimes notes and sometimes just squiggles. The last minute in particular is a bit different each time I play it.
Dec 31, 2010
It's nearly always my own compositions that I record, but here's one that I love by Philip Glass and recorded last week.
I'm about to record [with video] my latest piano piece called Nocturne Flamenco. Should be here early January. There are a few flamenco influenced compositions I've done on my site now. Last year was "Connections," for cello, marimba, palmas [flamenco clapping] & feet...find it on the MUSIC page...it's a result of my flamenco and classical worlds colliding [I do flamenco dance].
I compose Classical music ...often for the didjeridu, combined with a cello and flute...
but you might be here to download the music of the
Cello Miniatures from YOU TUBE, You can listen to them [music only] on my MUSIC page ...and read what I say about them a bit lower on this page, or you can go to YouTube to see and hear them [excuse the fuzzy image on this page]. Also on this page is the just uploaded on to YouTube [Aug 11, 09] Aubade written by the cellist/composer Dan Reiter. Like the Miniatures, it's recorded in my studio [different end of the room].
... I fell in love with the sound of the didjeridu years ago in Australia when I heard Charlie McMahon playing didjeridu with a keyboard player, in one of the local pubs in Balmain [Australia]. I started writing for the didjeridu in 1999, and after writing a few pieces, I found the musicians and put the music together on a CD called When West Meets East. They're long pieces for didjeridu, cello & flute [one also has djembe & chimes].
BUT...most recently, I've written 7 Cello Miniatures [for cello & piano]...and have had an amazing time [????] ...[computer hardware/software compatibility complications] recording them, adding good sound tracks, and designing them as miniature movies to go on to YOU TUBE...and separate soundtracks to go on to CD Baby...and it's all done!!!
I originally wrote just one Cello Miniature in response to the Vox Novus Project in New York. The project plays 60 different works that each last for 60 seconds or less. The one that I wrote for that project is called 16 Days to Make a Queen Bee. For the music theorists, I arranged it into 16 bars. By coincidence there was another project I read about at the same time that was for music of 100 notes or less. I combined the two...and my first miniature came in at 99 notes and 59 seconds. The cello has 29 notes and the piano has 70.
What I really like about how it came out is that when you're listening to it, you don't feel rushed. It is the most expansive and spacious sounding piece of them all...as though the bee has all the time in the world to become the queen bee [but doesn't!]. The strange title comes from a bee expert I heard talking on the radio about...bees. It amazed me that the worker bees just pick one of themselves out...feed it royal jelly...et voila!...16 days later...a queen bee. [Is that all we need to do to become something else?...just decide to be that something else?...]
So writing this one inspired me to create some other short cello pieces, and there grew to be 7 of them [16 Days to Make a Queen Bee became no. 3 of the 7]. Thinking about what sort of things to write about, I thought, "well, what else do I come in contact with in a day?"...and that's where the subtitle "7 Scenes From A Day" comes in.
Each one is quirky in its own distinctive way...maybe particularly no 2 because as a pianist I haven't had many opportunities to get up and stamp my foot!
I want to add that no 7 has an especially serious resonance with me [I wrote it after seeing the film The Visitor]...I was threatened with deportation a few years ago as I was reentering the USA: taken off to a small room where I sat for maybe 1/2 hour and pondered losing my new life.
On a lighter note...thanks to Cheryl Magat at Peets for the lyrics to no 4 What Would You Like?
Last summer I recorded Trimbach Plays Telemann, a collection of 11 Fantasies which I played on my Roland XV88 using the sound of a "nylon guitar"
Almost all the music I've written is here.
Most of it is available on CDs or for download from CD Baby [go to my BUY page], or you can just listen to it on the MUSIC page. I've put a couple of things on the MUSIC page that are not available as CDs...a live recording of my Didjeridu Suite and a MIDI realization of my Symphonic Suite...the opening of the 2nd movement of this is the opening music to the YOU TUBE videos.
...Vicki T.