Cancelled: MAGIK

Please note: Unfortunately, this performance has been cancelled until further notice, as Silvia Mandolini will not be able to make the trip out from Italy given the current situation there. However, we are still keen to make this show happen; stay tuned to Open Space for updates on rescheduling this performance.

Experience the sounds of an international collaboration between virtuosic Italian violinist Silvia Mandolini, and MAGIK (Kenton Loewen, drums; Giorgio Magnanensi, diffusion and live electronics).

Silivia Mandolini studied music in Montreal, and worked with the Ensemble Contemporain de Montr al (ECM, V ronique Lacroix) and the Montreal Baroque Orchestra (MBO, Jo l Thiffault). In 1994, she left Montreal for Italy. As an orchestral violinist, she has played under the baton of Chung, Pappano, Gergiev, Temirkanov, Janowski, Inbal, Gatti, and Oren. Together with pianist Brigitte Poulin, Mandolini gave a recital at the Biennale di Venezia in 2009 and at the Milano Musica festival in 2008. She has been a member of the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna since 2008. In 2012, together with the conductor and violinist Fabio Sperandio, she founded the Zipangu string ensemble, dedicated to the music of today.

MAGIK is a new Vancouver-based project that plays within a multi-layered, live electro acoustic surround sound-space among flat audio panels of hand cut West Coast Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce and Pacific Maple. The panels serve both as wooden resonators and diffusers, becoming the medium of magik s written and improvised soundscapes.

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