Mark Fewer
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Favourite Fewer things: Vivaldi, Miles, Thirteen Strings
February 11, 2009, 9:00 pm
Steven Mazey
Ottawa Citizen
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Mark Fewer is Thirteen Strings' guest soloist tomorrow night.
CREDIT: Ward Perrin, Canwest News Service
Mark Fewer is Thirteen Strings' guest soloist tomorrow night.
When was the last time you heard music by Vivaldi and Miles Davis at the
same concert?
It will happen tomorrow night, when Ottawa chamber orchestra Thirteen
Strings presents a concert at St. Andrew's Church with Montreal
violinist Mark Fewer as soloist and guest conductor Airat Ichmouratov.
Fewer, who will perform the Vivaldi and Miles Davis pieces, was
concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony from 2004 to 2008 and now
teaches at McGill University. He also performed at last summer's Ottawa
Chamber Music Festival. Though classically trained, Fewer has long had a
passion for jazz. He appeared with jazz guitarist Bill Frisell at the
Detroit Symphony's "8 Days in June" festival.
Tomorrow, Fewer will be soloist in Vivaldi's Concerto No. 5 in E flat
"La Tempesta di Mare" and Concerto No. 10 in B flat "La Caccia." And
he'll perform selections for six-string electric violin and string
orchestra associated with Miles Davis: Davis's tunes Nardis and So What
and Rodgers and Hart's My Funny Valentine, which Davis recorded.
Fewer says he's grateful to Thirteen Strings for suggesting the mix.
"I'm looking forward to this particular concert because it highlights
two of my favourite things: theatrical baroque music and modal jazz," he
says.
"The two have something in common: a sparse harmonic palette that allows
great freedom of improvisation and design. In the truest sense, both
Vivaldi and Davis give the performer the opportunity to become
co-creator of the music's presentation."
The orchestra will also perform music by Purcell and Locatelli,
Ichmouratov's Chamber Symphony and Franz Schreker's Intermezzo from
Romantic Suite, Op. 8. It starts at 8 p.m. tomorrow at St. Andrew's,
Kent Street at Wellington. Tickets, at $35 general, $30 for seniors, $10
for students, will be at the door. Information: www.thirteenstrings.ca.
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