[H&R] Tactile Harmony II: the Vocal Music of Stephen Fandrich

[Joseph Gray]

> Wallingford
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> Friday, November 9th, 8:00 P.M.
> The Chapel Performance Space at The Good Shepherd Center,
> 4649 Sunnyside Avenue N.
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> Jim Cole will not be present for this concert
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> About the artists
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> Jim Cole  began practicing harmonic overtone singing in 1991.  He founded
> Spectral Voices in 1996. Jim received an artist fellowship award from the
> Connecticut Commission on the Arts, which supported the production and
> release of Spectral Voices' debut CD Coalescence.  Jim has collaborated with
> Steve Roach,  Mathias Grassow and many other musicians.
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> Stephen Fandrich, a member of the Monktail Creative Music Concern
> (monktail.com), is an artist with a unique perspective. As part of a family
> of piano innovators,  he has been surrounded by the piano all his life,
> however, his interest in music was not apparent till about the age of
> thirteen. He began learning music at the piano by ear from recordings and by
> rote from his father Darrell Fandrich, a gifted pianist and renowned piano
> technician. Fandrich attended Cornish College of the Arts as a jazz pianist
> under Randy Halberstadt, as a classical pianist under Peter Mack and
> finished with a degree in music composition under Jarrad Powell. In 2003
> Stephen Fandrich gave his debut concert as a classical pianist at the Frye
> Art Museum playing his own works amid a classical program of Bach, Chopin,
> Scriabin, and Rachmaninoff. Quietly, word of Fandrich's pianism has spread
> throughout the Northwest in classical and jazz circles though his
> appearances have been scarce. Viewed by his peers as an incredible
> performer, interpreter and improviser at the piano, surprisingly it is his
> voice that has brought him the most acclaim. His skill as a vocalist,
> overtone-singer and composer for voice, has brought him all around the Puget
> Sound area and the Northwest, Alaska, New York, Hawaii, Canada, Central Java
> and Bali. Fandrich has dedicated much of his study and composition to the
> evolution of his voice as a member of Gamelan Pacifica (A traditional
> Indonesian percussion orchestra with a rich tradition of vocal music), the
> Waterman/Fandrich collaborations in music and poetry and as founder and
> director of the Seattle Harmonic Voices ( seattleharmonicvoices.com).
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> Gamelan Pacifica has performed extensively in the Pacific Northwest, as well
> as Canada and other parts of the U.S. Originally formed in 1980, Gamelan
> Pacifica is among the finest ensembles devoted to the performance of music
> for gamelan in the U.S. It is an active and adventurous ensemble, with a
> reputation for creating diverse productions merging traditional and
> contemporary musical forms with dance, theater, puppetry, and visual media.
> They have been guest performers on The Smithsonian Institute's Festival of
> Indonesia, New Music Across America Festival, Vancouver New Music Society,
> On the Boards, Walker Art Center, Performing Arts Chicago, many others. In
> the Northwest they perform regularly and have appeared at the University of
> Washington, Seattle University, Town Hall, Cornish College of the Arts, the
> Seattle Art Museum, Evergreen State College, Centrum, Bumbershoot Festival,
> Arts in Nature Festival, University of Orgeon, Whidbey Institute,
> CenterStage, and many, many others. Visiting artists have included some of
> the most notable artists of Indonesia, including Sutrisno Hartana, Wayan
> Sinti, Didik Nini Thowok, Sri Djoko Rahardja, I Made Sidia, Endo Suanda,
> Dedek Wahyudi, Goenawan Mohamad, and Tony Prabowo. Gamelan Pacifica's CD,
> Trance Gong has received international acclaim and is available from O.O.
> Discs. Gamelan Pacifica is directed by noted composer and Cornish College of
> the Arts Professor Jarrad Powell.
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> "With an air of timelessness, Gamelan Pacifica has done an unparalleled job
> of taking gamelan music to new heights, while remaining respectful to the
> roots and cultural significance of its instruments."
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> - SOMA Magazine
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> The Seattle Harmonic Voices is an a capella vocal ensemble dedicated to
> expanding the possibilities of the human voice through overtone singing, a
> technique widley touted as a vocalists ability to sing multiple tones
> simultaneously.
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> SHV, directed by Stephen Fandrich, was founded in the fall of 1999, and has
> produced a two CD set titled Harmonic Voice, developed notated scores, and
> presented many of its own intimate performances and workshops in the U.S.
> and Canada. SHV is honored to have been featured at Town Hall Seattle (Lift
> Every Voice, and Dempster Diving), Bainbridge Performing Arts Center, On The
> Boards, the Center for Spiritual Living (1st annual Seattle Sacred Music
> Festival), the Cornish Series at Cornish College of the Arts, the Centrum
> Foundation at Fort Warden State Park, the mason County community concert
> association, the Whidbey Institute, the Arts in Nature Festival, Samadhi
> Yoga, KBCS, KUOW, and live for Sonarchy Radio (produced by Jack Straw) on
> KEXP, an award winning international webcast station.
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> The music of the Seattle Harmonic Voices, composed by Stephen Fandrich is
> primarily slow, meditative and focused resonance with reverence to modern
> forms of overtone singing, to musical elements of other cultures, stochastic
> music, free and structured improvisation, mimesis, and to the crafted world
> of just-intonation.
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> Performers for these two evenings will include:
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> Scott Adams, Stephen Fandrich, Jeppa Hall, Joseph Gray, Jarrad Powell, and
> Roger Nelson, Maeg  O'Donoghue Williams, Gretta Harley.
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