Amorsima Trio - Three Voices, featuring work of Richard Ashby
| Date | 02.15.25 |
| Doors | 6:30pm |
| Time | 7pm–8:30pm |
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| Admission | Donation |
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Saturday February 15th, 2025
7pm-8:30pm
3600 Lyons Road, Austin, Texas 78721
"Three Voices" is the newest program from Amorsima Trio (violin, viola, and cello), exploring our voices and instruments to create compelling musical experiences for our audience. We'll be singing, speaking, chanting, humming, and hissing in these works for string trio, duo, and solo. A duo from Augusta Read Thomas reflects on poetry by 13th-century Persian poet Rumi. Feel free to walk between us while we perform a trio from Dieter Schnebel (yes, we'll be spinning around the floor in office chairs while we utter Aramaic phrases - how'd you know?). Take a journey with viola music from Anthony R. Green, telling an individualistic story by knocking on the instrument, stomping, singing, hissing, and speaking. Music by Tania Leon and Yu Kuwabara will showcase us both as three individual players and as a collective group.
We are incredibly grateful to local Austin-based artist Richard Ashby (IG: @redfoxatx) for sharing his artwork with our audience during this concert. Feel free to walk around before, during, and after the performance to take in these beautiful paintings.
We always strive to bring down the barrier between performers and the audience that is typical of classical music. Please join us on the evening of Saturday, February 15 as a treat to yourself to take in this amazing music, and leave the world behind, even just for a moment. We want to encourage folks to come together as a community and use our musical and non-musical voices to help effect change, even (especially) on the individual level. It's important to us to be able to meet our audience face-to-face, and we are grateful to the Museum of Human Achievement for helping us to do this.
Amorsima Trio is a boundary-pushing ensemble that redefines the traditional expectations of a string trio, bringing a fresh and contemporary perspective to the stage. Comprised of violinist Mia Detwiler, violist Michael Capone, and cellist Kourtney Newton, the trio was founded in 2016 through a shared passion for new music. The name "Amorsima,” which means "that which does not come from fate," was inspired by the Xenakis work Morsima-Amorsima and symbolizes their pursuit to redefine the traditional expectations of the string trio.
