Fractured
Fractured is a new production by composer Jill Jarman created for and performed by Dame Evelyn Glennie, Catrin Finch and Hugo Ticciati. This project reflects on the fracturing felt between groups of people, communities, and environment. Its ambition is to artistically bridge the gap between the hearing, hard of hearing and D/deaf communities via the power of music, and reconceiving conceptually how we listen. As Glennie puts it, ‘we are teaching the world to listen’.
The production started life as a 7 minute composition for the Cello, the starting point for a research programme by our Learning and Education Engagement Manager, Professor Laura Ritchie; Resonance Project: Music that is seen, Heard, and Felt.
Resonance, written by Jill Jarman, was composed to be an augmented (multisensory) musical experience, seen with Cymatics, a science about visualising the forms resulting from musical vibrations. This project provided the opportunity to blend the senses with multiple representations of the piece and capitalise on each sense’s strength to create a richer holistic experience. See our video for more information.
Fractured is part of the Across the Divide series by Jarman, which started during Glennies period as artists in residence at King’s Cross, where we presented Echoes from the Birdcage, composed by Jarman and produced by Arts Trust. It continued with Across the Divide nr 1 performed by Chineke! orchestra, and soloists Chi-chi Nwanoku, and Evelyn Glennie at the South Bank. This series of commissions is challenging the inequalities within the music industry, and brings to the foreground marginalised artists, in this case: female, black and ethnically diverse, LGBTQ+, and d/Deaf musicians..
TOURING
This production will be available for national and international touring in Spring 2025 - onwards. Please contact Arts Trust for more details about the production and its wrap-around education offer.
Producer: Martin Collins
Email: m.collins@artstrust.co.uk
Phone: 07941 660 192
About Jill Jarman
A composer and jazz pianist, Jill Jarman's music reflects diverse genres, effortlessly merging the boundaries between classical and jazz. "...Art music with jazz waywardness" [Swedish dagbladet]. A fascination with music from different cultures blur these boundaries further, and can be heard in works such as Echoes from the birdcage, an ensemble piece with percussionist Evelyn Glennie showing aspects from the multicultural sound world of London's Kings Cross.
About Dame Evelyn Glennie
Dame Evelyn Glennie is the world’s premier solo percussionist. Her solo recordings exceed 40 CDs. A double GRAMMY award winner and BAFTA nominee, Evelyn composes for film, theatre and television. The Evelyn Glennie Podcast was launched in 2020. Evelyn was awarded an OBE in 1993 and has over 100 international awards to date, including the Polar Music Prize, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the Companion of Honour. Evelyn is Curator for The Evelyn Glennie Collection. Her iconic film Touch the Sound, TED Talk and charity The Evelyn Glennie Foundation embody her life-long mission to Teach the World to Listen.
About Catrin Finch
It pushes the boundaries,” says Catrin Finch. “It’s not really harp-based at all, so it’s a bit of a gamble.” She’s describing her lock-down collaboration with the Cardiff-based electronic musician and producer Lee House. “What I’m trying to do in this next phase of my career, is maybe move away from being solely a harpist.” A bit of a departure for some perhaps, but for Catrin Finch, known chiefly as the most gifted classical harp virtuoso of her generation, making an album with “an Ibiza chill-out kind of vibe” is more than a bit of a gamble. It’s another bold departure from the well-paved classical music highway, onto uncharted byways bound for terra incognita.
About Hugo Ticciati
As violinist, leader and conductor, Hugo Ticciati imbibes all possible forms of creativity, whether it be performing world premieres in the most prestigious venues around the world, improvising with monks in India, or devising innovative programmes for O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra and Festival which he founded in 2011. Alongside his passion to discover and learn from the music of previous epochs and non-western traditions, Hugo embraces the world of contemporary music. To date, over forty works have been written for and dedicated to him by a host of eminent composers, including Erkki-Sven Tüür, Pēteris Vasks, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Albert Schnelzer and Dobrinka Tabakova.