Joining us at the Republic for the first time in five years, an iconic figure in European improvisation is our second visitor from Berlin this July, and another not to be missed...
MAGDA MAYAS
[piano and electronics]
SUNDAY July 16th
at 7.30 p.m. [doors at 7]
Magda Mayas
Magda was born in 1979 and is a pianist and composer/performer living in Berlin. Over the past 20 years she has developed a vocabulary utilising both the inside and the exterior parts of the piano, using amplification, preparations and objects that become extensions of the instrument itself. She has developed a set of techniques that draw on the history of prepared and inside piano vocabulary, but are highly individualised and expand the language for internal piano music-making.
She holds a PhD in Music Performance and Interpretation from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Since 2019 she has taught improvisation at Luzern University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Magda performs internationally solo and in collaboration, having toured in Europe, the USA, Australia, Mexico and Lebanon and worked with many leading figures in improvisation and composers such as Marilyn Mazur, John Butcher, Nate Wooley, Eddie Prévost, Phill Niblock, David Sylvian, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Joelle Leandre, Paul Lovens, Ikue Mori, Ken Vandermark, Okkyung Lee, Nic Collins, Elliot Sharp, Chris Abrahams and Maja Ratkje. Current projects are Spill, a duo with drummer Tony Buck, a duo with Christine Abdelnour (sax), Great Waitress, with Monika Brooks (acc) and Laura Altman (clarinet), Jane in Ether with Biliana Voutchkova (vl) und Miako Klein (recorders) and the Splitter Orchester in Berlin.
Festivals and exhibitions include Maerz Musik (2012, 2015), Documenta (2012), the Berlin Biennale (2014) and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2015). She was awarded a residency at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles in 2016 and at the Montalvo Arts Centre, USA in 2017 and 2019 and she co-curated the festival “Music Unlimited” in Wels, Austria, in 2019. She has produced radio pieces for ABC Australia and Deutschlandradio Kultur and released over 40 CDS to date.
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