Mines
3 free improvised spirits
Strings
Skins
Bows
the lowest tones
and the highest rolls
no chance of losing what we never owned

SCHEDULE:

Angharad Davies and Lina Lapelyte duo

Malcolm Goldstein - between hair and wood/changes
Played by Barolsky, Davies, Lapelyte and Volkov

Mines (Yael Barolsky, Ilan Volkov and Ram Gabay)



MINES

Ilan Volkov is one of contemporary music's most powerful advocates and vibrant practitioners. Here he returns to Cafe OTO with his Mines trio featuring Ilan and Yael Barolsky on violins and Ram Gabay on drums and percussion. They're joined on the night by Angharad Davies for an evening of improvised music and specially selected repertoire.

ILAN VOLKOV

Ilan Volkov, began his career as Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, and was Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2003-2009. Since then he has been the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor.

He is a frequent guest conductor with orchestras around the world, including BBC Scottish, and his recordings have won critical acclaim as well as prestigious awards. Volkov is very active in the new music scene and has premiered many contemporary orchestral works, including compositions by Jonathan Harvey, Hans Abrahamsen, Unsuk Chin, Mark-Anthony Turnage and others. Ilan Volkov also works regularly with leading ensembles in modern music such as Ensemble Modern and Musik Fabrik. Volkov has curated various new music events in Israel over the last six years including Hafarot Seder and Hapzura. He has also collaborated with Iancu Dumitrescu, AMM, John Butcher, John Oswald, Zeena Parkins and John Zorn to mention a few. Volkov is a member of the improvisation trio Mines, an ensemble consisting of two violins and drums.



YAEL BAROLSKY

Yael Barolsky performs with leading musicians from Israel and abroad and with various contemporary music ensembles such as the Israel contemporary players, Maria Kong dance company and more. She has performed as a soloist under the conductor Pierre Boulez, the Bochumer Symphoniker, Rhein­Ruhr Philharmonie, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and participated at the PRO Festival in Rolandseck, Germany; Kfar Blum Chamber Music Days in the Upper Galilee, Lucerne Festival and has been broadcast on the Israeli and European Radio.

ANGHARAD DAVIES

Angharad Davies is a violinist whose work is situated in the complex intersection of improvised and composed music. She is dedicated to exploring and expanding sound production on the violin, and has developed a specific approach to the violin, which extends the sound possibilities of the instrument by attaching and applying objects to the strings or by sounding unexpected parts of the instrument's body.

Davies is an active performer in contemporary, improvisation and experimental music both as a soloist, within ensembles such as Apartment House and Common Objects, and in smaller improvised groups with musicians such as Axel Dörner, Taku Unami, and Tisha Mukarji.

Her sensitivity to the sonic possibilities of musical situations and attentiveness to their shape and direction make her one of contemporary music's most fascinating figures.

www.angharaddavies.com

LINA LAPELYTE

Artist, composer, musician and performer, Lina Lapelyte says of her practice, ‘it can be placed ‘in-between’; in-between classical and experimental, music and fine art, composing and improvising.’ Initially trained as a classical violinist in Lithuania Lina showed an interest in experimental music from early on. Her experience playing with the likes of David Toop, John Butcher and Anton Lukoszevieze within the London improvised music scene in 2006 radically changed her way of composing, her pieces becoming frameworks for improvisations rather than finished compositions. Questioning the importance of musical training became another strand in her work leading her to incorporate untrained performers in unorthodox ways. Her opera Have a Good Day! which examined issues of displacement, otherness and beauty through piano, electronics and text involved using actual cashiers from local supermarkets for the vocal strand of the piece.