Previous events

Mar22

Join us! Creative Music Series #12 at 8EAST 8 East Pender St. and Tyrant Studios 1019 Seymour St workshops and performances March 22 8EAST 8:00 Not the Music: Éric Normand • Philippe Lauzier (QC) Joshua Zubot • Lisa Cay Miller Saba Amrei • Parmela Attariwala Also in the series: March 23 8EAST 2:00 Improvisation workshop. PWYC

Wreckonciliation is a musical response to the last decade of learning, striving, and failing to reckon with Canada’s colonial past. Mezzo soprano Marion Newman, of Kwagiulth and Stó:lō First Nations with English, Irish and Scottish heritage; Métis soprano Melody Courage, and director Yvette Nolan (Algonquin), have teamed up with Opera Kelowna for an evening that upends expectations and invites everyone to take up the joy, and the work, of building a better future together.

Wreckonciliation is a musical response to the last decade of learning, striving, and failing to reckon with Canada’s colonial past. Mezzo soprano Marion Newman, of Kwagiulth and Stó:lō First Nations with English, Irish and Scottish heritage; Métis soprano Melody Courage, and director Yvette Nolan (Algonquin), have teamed up with Opera Kelowna for an evening that upends expectations and invites everyone to take up the joy, and the work, of building a better future together.

https://www.operakelowna.com/production/wreckonciliation_2024/

Vancouver Erhu Quartet

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The Annex, 823 Seymour St, Vancouver

New repertoire for our second album! Music composed by Moshe Denburg, Amir Eslami, Elizabeth Knudsen, and Yahwen. Lan and I will also be leading improvisations with the quartet and young string players.

$19.99 regular (Early Bird $15 by Nov 30), $15 students/seniors/children Free for children under 12 years old

Moon Bells is part installation part improvised performance featuring suspended ceramic bells made by interdisciplinary designer/composer, Roxanne Nesbitt. These instruments are inspired by the mythology and cyclically evolving shape of the moon. This performance features Roxanne Nesbitt with ceramics and voice, Parmela Attariwala on viola and Juno award-winning drummer Ben Brown on suspended bells. Moon Bells offers the audience an intimate view into the exciting world of experimental instrument design. The ceramic bells were made by Nesbitt at the European Keramic Work Centre in Oisterwijk, Netherlands. Like many of Roxanne’s instrument design projects, these pieces were made through a combination of intuitive exploration and ancient mathematical formulas. The ceramic bells structure both the performance space and the improvised sound palette. These freshly-crafted hybrid instruments inspire new ways of making and experiencing sound, celebrating the creative possibilities of the interdisciplinary concert.

Roxanne Nesbitt "Moonbells" with Ben Brown and Parmela Attariwala, presented by New Works Calgary

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nvrlnd boutique, 1048 21 Ave SE, Calgary

Moon Bells is part installation part improvised performance featuring suspended ceramic bells made by interdisciplinary designer/composer, Roxanne Nesbitt. These instruments are inspired by the mythology and cyclically evolving shape of the moon. This performance features Roxanne Nesbitt with ceramics and voice, Parmela Attariwala on viola and Juno award-winning drummer Ben Brown on suspended bells. Moon Bells offers the audience an intimate view into the exciting world of experimental instrument design. The ceramic bells were made by Nesbitt at the European Keramic Work Centre in Oisterwijk, Netherlands. Like many of Roxanne’s instrument design projects, these pieces were made through a combination of intuitive exploration and ancient mathematical formulas. The ceramic bells structure both the performance space and the improvised sound palette. These freshly-crafted hybrid instruments inspire new ways of making and experiencing sound, celebrating the creative possibilities of the interdisciplinary concert.

Jun21

Parmela Attariwala & Tomasz Krakowiak

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Michelangelo’s (Dupont & Ossington ), (Exact address coming soon!), Toronto

Jam session with a new viola and one of my very favourite soundmakers.

West Coast String Summit _Improvisation

8east, 8 East Pender St, Vancouver

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/