Viveza

Canadian ensemble Viveza appreciates a specific kind of music that lots of other musicians just perform as encores or if they desire to be temporarily less serious than typical. This sort of music is often known as “salon” or “hand courtroom” music. Viveza loves to mention that music originated across the switch of the twentieth hundred years in hazy organizations that offered refreshments to some less-than-completely polite section of society, such that it regularly includes sensual dances just like the tango, early Dixieland jazz, Gypsy airs, along with other similarly unique fare. The group’s applications likewise incorporate operetta arias and “light” music by composers such as for example Brahms, Dvorák, and Ravel who talk about stylistic components with those additional functions. Viveza was founded in 1988 by five Vancouver music artists: Gwen Thompson, violin; Tag Koenig, violin and melodion; Lee Duckles, cello, Wilmer Fawcett, dual bass, and Linda Lee Thomas, piano. Percussionist Salvador Ferreras became a member of the group for a number of of its recordings. By 1996, Duckles and Thomas got remaining and Robert Holliston got become its pianist. It had been confronted with another problem of changing employees when Koenig passed on in past due 2006. Viveza trips throughout Canada and america, providing recitals and showing up at chamber music celebrations. In addition, it performs programs from the music of Astor Piazzolla with Ballet BC, and it earned Emmy and Gemini honours for the 1998 CBC tv program Dance in as soon as. In 2007 the ensemble was planning a new Compact disc release.