ISSUE Radio: Frances-Marie Uitti

A performance by Frances-Marie Uitti, the American born, Netherlands based cello virtuoso, innovator, and champion of new and experimental music, recorded live at ISSUE Project Room in February 2011. The recital features compositions dedicated to Uitti by Rocco Di Pietro, Annie Gosfield, and György Kurtág, as well as one of her own multiphonic works.

Uitti returns to ISSUE Project Room April 5th & 6th, 2013, for a two-night residency with her long-time collaborator, clarinetist Carol Robinson.

Rocco Di Pietro, "Chicon"
Annie Gosfield, "The Harmony of the Body-Machine"
György Kurtág, "Message to Frances-Marie"
Frances-Marie Uitti, "Multiphonic Chorale"

Frances-Marie Uitti, composer/performer, pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal and intricate multivoiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous legato vs articulated playing.

She tours as soloist extensively throughout the world having played for audiences from New York City to Mongolia and appears regularly in such festivals as the Biennale Di Venezia, Strasbourg Festival, Gulbenkian Festival Ars Musica, Holland Festival and for radios and televisions in Europe, Japan, and the United States. She premiered cello concerti dedicated to her by Per Norgaard, Dick Raaijmakers, Jonathan Harvey, James Tenney, Peter Nelson and gave the first performance of the cello concerto of William Jeths in 2000. She premiered the newly discovered concerto by Giacinto Scelsi in 2008.

Her compositions can be heard on ECM records, Cryptogrammophone, JdKrecords, Seraphin, Etcetera, and BVHaast.