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German musician (born 1994)
Anniversaries 1994 Anniversaries (Birth: Vivi Vassileva)
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- musician, percussionist
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2024-04-25
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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-08-04 07:43:27
The soloist is the astonishing Vivi Vassileva. The post A concerto for recycling plastic bottles appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-03-11 08:47:01
[…] at Snape Maltings Concert Hall for a couple of concerts, too, with their first offering an inspirational new concerto for orchestra featuring an array of percussion instruments collected from hundreds of pieces of rubbish thereby creating an incredible array of perfectly tuned and untuned percussion instruments offering a greater range of sounds and timbres than a normal orchestra’s percussion section. Here they showcase the resulting concerto - an inspirational project, the brainchild of percussionist Vivi Vassileva and composer-conductor Gregor A. Mayrhofer - performed by the brilliant orchestral players of the Britten Sinfonia. For their second concert, conducted by Gregor A. Mayrhofer, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 6 in F major (the Pastoral) will be heard in stark contrast to a new work from Brett Dean in response to the Beethoven while Vivi Vassileva will give the first UK performance of a new work by Bushra El-Turk, one of this year’s featured […]
2022-03-08 17:28:00
[…] very well. The orch. was surprisingly sloppy and Runnicles seemed to be beating time at various points. The scene with the Venetian ambassador lost all momentum, for example. The most recent production, in November, 2009, had completely different problems. I heard the last performance, and Nicola Luisotti's conducting sounded so disengaged that I figured he was already mentally checked out and on his way to guest conduct elsewhere. Marco Vratogna shouted most of Jago. Zvetelina Vassileva was forgettable, and had so little chemistry with Johan Botha that she never looked at him during the love duet! Botha...what can one say? He sang like an angel; I know that I'll never hear a more beautiful sound in the love duet. But he could not act, was facially inexpressive, and not very mobile on stage. It was a really dispiriting performance. So it's a real thrill to see an Otello production that's firing on […]
2021-12-17 07:43:54
[…] Frances Gregor and Andrew Mackenzie Wicks, in a production directed by Jude Christian. Other Tom Coult works at the festival include I Find Planets, setting tweets from a social media account which every hour announces the discovery of a new planet, performed by the Hermes Experiment, and Coult's piano trio, The Chronophage performed by Trio Mazzolini. Other contemporary composers at the festival include Bushra El-Turk. Her new work for percussion is given its UK premiere by Vivi Vassileva and the Britten Sinfonia, the Adelphi Quartet performs two of El-Turk's quartets, and Ostina-bush-to for solo piano receives its first UK performance played by Clare Hammond. Vivi Vassileva is also the soloist in Gregor A Mayrhofer's Recycling Concerto with the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by the composer. Ryan Wigglesworth will be conducting the Knussen Chamber Orchestra in a programme that includes the first public performance of Wigglesworth's Five Waltzes, with Lawrence Power (viola), and Britten's Phaedra with Sophie […]
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