https://luluperformingarts.ca/events/listen-listen-meredith-bates-violin-guests/

The final evening of the Vancouver New Music's "West Coast String Summit" features an evening of improvised string exchanges with local musicians including: Nicolas Caloia (double bass), Émilie Girard-Charest (cello), Parmela Attariwala (viola), Marina Hasselberg (cello), Lan Tung (erhu), Sina Ettehad (kamanche), Torsten Müller (double bass), and Josh Zubot (violin). 8pm at 8East; pwyc For more information on the West Coast String Summit and visiting artists, please see: https://newmusic.org/stringsummit2023/

Presented by Upstream Music Association

Improvised Music for Violin, Viola, Bass and Guitar. Tickets by donation

Free, public discussion presented by Music in Communities: "Being a 21st Century Arts JEDI: Conscientiously considering how and for whom we are performing, curating and teaching in the music sector."

https://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/evolution-classical-2022/20220516

Moon Bells / Symbiotic extends Roxanne Nesbitt’s ongoing explorations of sonic timbre and texture through handmade ceramic percussion and altered instruments. Part installation, part performance, audience members will enter into a space that is shaped by the suspended ceramic sculptural pieces. The visual suggestion of weightlessness and levity blends with sound layers of coaxed from the sculptural instruments creating a subtly shifting sonic and material translucency.

The performance installation features two new distinct bodies of ceramic instruments made by Nesbitt. The moon bells are hanging spinning translucent resonant panels designed using ratios from just intonation and warped through the ceramic process in the kiln. Symbiotic Instruments is an on-going project exploring interactions between traditional and experimental instruments.

The performance features Roxanne Nesbitt, Ben Brown activating the ceramics and Parmela Attariwala on viola.

The first concert of Vancouver Inter-cultural Orchestra's 2022 Global Soundscapes Festival. The Vancouver Erhu Quartet features two erhus, viola (yours truly) and cello, performing music by commissioned specifically for the ensemble.

See https://vancouverimprovisedarts.com for more information. I will be playing around 5:50-6:30pm

"It's Already Happening" is a series focused on systemic barriers and change in the Canadian music sector (the orchestral sector to be specific). There are many levels at which the "system" has intrinsic barriers to access. There are strong socio-cultural and political reasons behind why musical culture is exclusive to specific groups of people. Today, though, orchestras - and all Eurocentric cultural organizations - are being asked to change, but many are unable to do so swiftly, equitably and ethically. I will discuss some of the reasons why this is so, and what we need to re-consider if we truly want orchestras to be "just".

Two members of Vancouver’s Erhu quartet join with viola and cello in this confluence of new works for string quartet. works by: Tim Brady, Edward Topp, Mark Armanini and Jin Zhang

A multi-layered and immersive experience by Ayumi Goto, Peter Morin, Parmela Attariwala, Immony Men, Patricio Davila, Justine Woods, José Andrés Mora, Emily Fitzpatrick, Janell Morin, and Kyoko Goto. The Crow and Salmon Live Everywhere is a creative convergence of performance, virtual reality, motion capture, and sound, combined to make a space for your body to become a salmon or a crow. This collective work is an homage to the Crow and Salmon who teach us to imagine beyond human measures. This built immersive environment generates a new radically shared language of fabricated and assembled worlds and meanings. The artwork raises questions about the nature of movement, bodies, performance, and how these states recombine and activate new desire lines and ways of knowing. https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/traversal-residency-peter-morin-and-ayumi-goto/ Gallery is open Tues-Sun, 12-5. *To visit the exhibit, please email: emily@trinitysquarevideo.com proof of vaccine required

recorded interpretations of Peter Morin's NDN Love Songs - performed by Parmela and Peter, September, 2020

36 musicians and four artists spread across three countries contributed to the performance of Lisa Cay Miller's comprovisation, "Handtuch von Anna". Edited by sound engineers Sheldon Zaharko (Vancouver) and Ron Ruiten (Amsterdam)

The fourth of a seven night series of online improvisations between Vancouver-based and Holland-based musicians. June 25th will include trios and sextents with Onno Goveart (drums), Aram Bakarian (guitar), Lisa Cay Miller (piano), Melissa Hubert (flute), Torsten Muller (bass), and Parmela Attariwala (viola). see http://nowsociety.org for more information (coming soon)

The NOW Society's Spring 2020 workshops -- Wednesdays running April 29-June 17th will be running online! To register please go to now@nowsociety.org

Part of Orchestras Canada National Conference 2020 "Orchestras for Tomorrow: The Work Starts Now", May 20-22. More details forthcoming:

Premiere performance of a commissioned musical "response" to Jeffrey Gibson's "Time Carriers" and Nep Sidhu's "Divine of Form, Formed in the Divine (Medicine for a Nightmare)". Details forthcoming ...