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"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.

I'll be adding new compositions from my concert a month or so ago. First will be the didjeridu, cello & piano French Cafe Suite - a series of 5 pieces, each about 4 minutes long. The quality is "live" with a not so great piano [the life of a pianist!!]...but they're there. No.4 came out great with didjeridu, cello & my "flamenco feet" doing percussion.

Inspired by meeting Ann today at an open house, I'm posting the concert dates for my new music. Saturday Sep 11th and Sunday Sep 12th. They'll both be in the Berkeley/Oakland area, and I'll post details as soon as I know them for sure!
The concert will include Dan Reiter [cello], Randin Graves [dijeridu], and myself on piano. I'm currently working my way through composing the new music. The piano/cello work "Pas Deux" is completed [and rehearsed]...the new nocturne for solo piano called "Nocturne Flamenco} is coming along...and the 20-25 minutes of new didjeridu chamber music is taking shape. It's a suite of pieces for didjeridu, cello & piano called "French Cafe Suite." There will be 5 pieces, and I've finished no. 1 & 3, with work started on no.5. Dan and I will be performing the Cello Miniatures again [the set of 7 pieces on You Tube...see my MUSIC page. Ciao!

I can tell already that this year is going to be the year that the 6 years of flamenco dance I've been doing will have a big impact on the music that I compose...just finished a new piano & cello work for a September concert...and as hard as I tried to not let the flamenco sounds creep in...well...I eventually succumbed!!
Maybe it dates back to October last year when I was called in, as a keyboardist, to fill in for a violinist in a flamenco show by Virginia Iglesias. This was a first for me...and after hours [and hours] of getting my hands to move in flamenco sounds and rhythms, it seems that the hands want to keep moving that way!!
Have a look on the photo page to see a couple of photos from just before the show.

...and...every so often I look into the "behind the scenes" statistics for my web site...and I just want to say that it's amazing to see the list of countries where my music is listened to !!!...and I want to list a few of the smaller places that really brought a big smile to my face...Moldova, Seychelles, Cocos Islands, Lithuania & Romania...thank you!!!

...have just uploaded the recording of my flamenco based composition "Connections." It's flamenco based because the idea for it started with the palmas & feet, some of the rhythms of which are straight out of flamenco dances...but the cello and marimba are a classical style, in my own voice. I decided to record it in a cafe to create a more alive sound than from a recording studio...Cafe Noir, cnr. Broadway & Webster in Oakland. The owners Emily & Fred were great...they wanted it to happen in their space...and made us pizza afterwards...also, because of their cool space, the photos look great [see PHOTO page]...

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I've started work on some new music
...chamber music for cello, marimba and 4 feet. I'm taking basic flamenco rhythms [starting with solea] and overlaying them with my own cello and marimba style. I'm just beginning and it's going slowly 'cos it's a new sound combination for me.
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...another solo piano work to follow on from my Nocturne. This one will be called Patetico.
I'll be doing both in a concert planned for the end of May [details being worked out at the moment].

I had fun over the last couple of weeks writing a counterpoint to Yo-Yo Ma playing Dona Nobis Pacem. I used my keyboard sounding like a "nylon guitar" again [like I did for recording Trimbach plays Telemann]. These were the steps : 1...download Yo-Yo Ma playing the melody, from indabamusic, into my recording software [Sonar]...2...play along live on my keyboard..3...record the version I liked...4...upload the cello & keyboard version to the indabamusic site. It was cool to "accompany" Yo-Yo Ma!!

AUGUST ’08… YOU TUBE RELEASES

In August I launched the [7] YOU TUBE videos of my latest music…7 cello & piano pieces, all about 60 seconds long. They have the title Cello Miniatures: 7 Scenes from a Day. This is a new format for me – short pieces, with video, and three lines of “poetry” that provide a backdrop for the music.

No. 2, 3 & 4 seem to be drawing the most attention, although no. 7 is doing well through my site. Personally...I'm attached to them all. Hopefully next year I'll get to do them live...it'll be quite a work out!
OCT 11, 12 … HARVEST OF SONG CONCERTS

My composition "Fragments of Baghdad” [for didjeridu, cello, flute & harpsichord] will be played at the Harvest of Song concerts at the Berkeley Art Center, in Berkeley. which feature a range of local composers and their new works.

post concert comment...thanks so much to Tod Brody [flute], Dan Reiter [Cello} & Peter Hadley [Didjeridu, all the way from Connecticut]...it went great!! It was an adventure to play in the ensemble with a real harpsichord. www.berkeleyartcenter.org
NOV 15 … TRINITY CONCERT SERIES

In a concert featuring the music of Aaron Blumenfeld, I’ll be performing on piano with tenor Ray Chavez to premiere new songs and also accompanying soprano Pamela Hicks in songs that will include Aaron's interpretation of "Song of Songs."

2320 Dana St, Berkeley, 8.00pm www.trinitychamberconcerts.com