Mari Kimura + Pamela Z + Thea Farhadian in Concert 2/21/26 C4NM
Pamela Z
an evening with
Mari Kimura (violin & electronics), Pamela Z (voice & electronics), and Thea Farhadian (violin and electronics) will perform solo works and trio improvisations for violins, voice, live electronics, and gesture-controlled instruments. Tickets: $15 General Admission, $10 Members & Students Center for New Music This concert is part of the 2026 Composers Now Festival. |
Mari Kimura is at the forefront of violinists who are extending the technical and expressive capabilities of the instrument. As a performer, composer, researcher, and entrepreneur, she has opened up new sonic worlds and new musical possibilities for the violin. Notably, she has mastered the production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violin’s lowest string without re-tuning. This technique, which she calls Subharmonics, has earned Mari considerable renown in the concert music world and beyond. She is also a pioneer in the field of interactive computer music. At the same time, she has earned international acclaim as a soloist and recitalist in both standard and contemporary repertoire. Her most recent efforts involves entrepreneurship, bringing her prototype motion sensor MUGIC®, (pronounced "mu" as in music +"gic" as in magic) to the market. marikimura.com Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist making works for voice, electronic processing, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She has composed scores for dance, film, and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird). Her awards include the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, United States Artists, the Guggenheim, MIT McDermott Award, Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Herb Alpert Award, and a composition award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. pamelaz.com Thea Farhadian is a performer/composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work extends over a wide range of disciplines in projects including solo violin and interactive electronics, acoustic improvisation, solo laptop, radio art, and scoring experimental video. Her solo pieces for violin and electronics combine a classical music background with extended technique, digital processing, and extensive improvisation. In January 2025 her second solo album, Tattoos and Other Markings, was released by Other Minds Records. It is an evocation of the symbols of cultural memory and integrates ethnographic materials with a more mechanical, abstracted soundscape. She grew up listening to Armenian folk and sacred music, which eventually led her to the study of Arabic music with a number of eminent teachers, notably the Palestinian oud and violin master Simon Shaheen. theafarhadian.com |
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