Thomas Myrmel

Quarletectrik is a unique quartet of electronically extended instruments:
Thomas Myrmel (trombone/elecronics), Tatiana Rosa (flute/elecronics), Dave Kutz (tuba/elecronics), Antonii Baryshevskyi (piano/elecronics)

Thomas: "Following the Jubileum last year, it was my intention to harness all that inspiration and funnel it into a new ensemble for which I had some great ideas I wanted to capture using gesture driven electronics in combination with acoustic instruments. While I got started conversing with the performers I wished to engage, my transition back to life in Amsterdam after 5 yrs in Minneapolis caused a slight delay in presenting the results.. And now, with the informal presentation of this new ensemble at my ledenconcert, I am overjoyed to bring these all new works to their very first audience!

Convex mirror as Fisheye lens
For each of these works, the notion of the convex mirror serves as the governing principle. This fish eye lens which distorts a 2 dimensional image allows for a much wider perspective while forgoing the accurate representation of forms in their proportions. Here I employ electronics as a sonic fisheye lens to the acoustic sounds, expanding and contracting each sonic form depending on where in the lens it is perceived."

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Bios:
Antonii Baryshevskyi is a Splendor musician, Ukrainian pianist, and winner of the First Prizes in Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, “Premio Jaen”, and F. Busoni International Piano Competition. Antonii graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine and École Normale de Musique de Paris where he studied with Valerii Kozlov and Marian Rybicki. He also trained under Alina Sorkina, Ryta Donskaya, Lily Dorfman. Antonii has been a guest of renowned festivals such as Progetto Martha Argerich, Klavier Ruhr festival, and has played with some of the leading European orchestras, including Munich Radio Orchestra, and Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini.

Canadian born tuba player Dave Kutz holds the position of solo tuba with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam. Arriving in the Netherlands in 2002 to work with the Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dave has since performed with virtually every major ensemble in the country including numerous engagements with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Asko|Schönberg, Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Radio Filharmonic Orchestra, and Metropole Orchestra.

Away from the back row of the orchestra, Dave is actively creating projects as a proud member of Splendor as well as for the Netherlands Philharmonic Brass. His 2015 debut solo CD Pure Imagination with pianist Gerard Bouwhuis and Chamber Consort Amsterdam was met with excellent reviews. Dave holds the title of Doctor of Music from Northwestern University in Chicago and has studied with Rex Martin, Gene Pokorny, Dennis Miller, Nicolas Atkinson, and the late Arnold Jacobs. Dave is Yamaha International Artist and Lätzsch Cimbasso performing Artist.

Tatiana Rosa is a Portuguese flutist, composer and audio-visual artist, currently based in Amsterdam. Her work, deeply linked with the use of electronics, digital tools, as well as literal and intuitive interpretation of data, aims to redirect the use of technology and data driven experiences, by subverting their use, while establishing close relationships between art, socio-political awareness, and technological impact.

Thomas Myrmel is a composer, performer and multifaceted artist, weaving the notions of social change, craftsmanship and creative expression into every aspect of his practice. He uses the techniques he acquired while studying composition at Conservatories in Rennes (FR) Chicago (USA) and Amsterdam (NL) to create music theater productions and performance art as well autonomous music for festivals throughout Europe, the middle east, the USA and Japan.

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