Iva Bittová

Vocalist and violinist Iva Bittová is among the few artists in the Czech Republic to take pleasure from an international profession. Her irresistible attraction, original usage of tone of voice, and fondness of melodies that take a seat on the boundary of avant-garde and playground nursery rhymes gained her devoted supporters all over the world, although the primary of her market resides in Eastern European countries. Iva Bittová was created July 7, 1958, in Bruntal, Moravia (Czech Republic). The next of three daughters, she was raised within a musical environment. Her dad, Koloman Bitto, performed electric guitar, trumpet, and dual bass in folk and traditional ensembles. Her mom, Ludmila Bittová, a tuned instructor, spent her lifestyle performing in professional vocal ensembles. During Iva’s youth the family journeyed a whole lot between cities as her dad changed jobs often. She had taken ballet and violin lessons, and performed children’s parts on-stage. The family members eventually resolved in Brno, and there she focused her passions on movie theater, completing her play studies in university. For another a decade she proved helpful as an celebrity, appearing on tv and in a small number of Czech feature movies, including Jaromil Jires’ Ostrov Stribrnych Volavek (“The Isle of Sterling silver Herons”) and Zápisník Zmizeleho (“Journal of a Shed Spirit”). In the first ’80s, Bittová restored her curiosity about the violin. She started lessons with Rudolf Stastny and began to develop her exclusive vocal techniques, manufactured from whispers, grunts, and moans, plus a lively, almost giddy shade. Her 1st musical partner was drummer Pavel Fajt (Dunaj, later on with Pluto, the Danubians) with whom she documented her 1st record, Bittová & Fajt, in 1985. She also released several single EPs and documented with Dunaj of these 1st years (her tenure with this important avant-rock group would last from 1985 to 1988). Her second LP with Fajt, Svatba (“THE MARRIAGE”), was found for worldwide distribution by Review Information. That’s how it found the interest of ex-Henry Cow member Chris Cutler, and finally to Fred Frith. The seminal avant-garde guitarist highlighted the duo in the 1989 film and soundtrack Stage Across the Boundary, giving them worldwide publicity and spawning a tour beyond Eastern European countries. Bittová’s initial full-length single album arrived in 1991 on Pavian, implemented the next calendar year by River of Dairy, her initial U.S. discharge. During the middle-’90s she proved helpful mainly being a single artist, documenting two even more albums for BMG, but she also concluded her association with Fajt and Dunaj over the 1995 Pustit Musís, and produced her initial foray into traditional music with some concerts and a Compact disc of Béla Bartók’s violin duets (with Dorothea Kellerová). In 1997, Bittová teamed up with Rale guitarist Vladimír Václavek to record the stunning Bílé Inferno (on Indies). This as well as the 1998 eponymous single Compact disc released on non-esuch revived her worldwide profession. She and Václavek stormed the celebrations of European countries. In 1998 she and violinist Dorothea Kellerová documented Béla Bartók: 44 Duets for just two Violins. ‎ Bittová started the new hundred years by collaborating using the Nederlands Blazers Outfit (a Dutch woodwind group) in documenting an recording of her personal compositions, Dance from the Vampires. It had been adopted in 2001 by Čikori, another cooperation with Václavek. In 2004, she was supported from the ? kampa Quartet in an application of Leoš Janáček’s tracks entitled, Moravian Folk Poetry in Tracks. The next yr she caused Bang on the Can on an application of her personal compostions entitled Elida. Bittová started her association with ECM Information in 2006 using the launch of Mater, a assortment of tracks by Slovakian composer Vladimír Godár. In 2007 she sang and performed violin on bassist George Mraz’s Moravian Gems. In 2012, she as well as the Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra documented a retrospective recording of her compositions entitled Zvon (“Bell”), that was released in the Czech Republic. The record included performances by many collaborators from her previous including guitarists David and Vladimir Václavek. In 2013, Bittová’s self-titled record premiered by ECM. She performed completely single with her tone of voice, violin, and kalimba.