[NewMusicEvents] SIMM Series 12/10/2006, Gunda Gottschalk & Xu Fegxia

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OUTSOUND.ORG Presents...
Sunday December 10th, 2006
SIMM New Music Series
116 9th St. @ Mission, San Francisco
7:30 PM, donation 
$10 general $8 student/senior $5 artist
kids under 12 free
http://www.outsound.org
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from Germany 
Gunda Gottschalk - Violin & Xu Fegxia - guzheng/voice 
performing with...
Garth Powell - drums percussion
Matthew Goodheart - piano
Tim Perkis -electronics
and Gino Robair - drums/percussion


Gunda Gottschalk plays improvised and contemporary
music and combines her musical work with other art
forms such as dance, theater, film, composition,
visual art and literature.
Born in 1969. Lives in Wuppertal, Germany.
Classical violin studies with Johannes Prelle and
Susanne Imhof at the State Hochschule for Music in the
Rhineland. Further master classes and private studies
with Stefan Picard, Antje Weithaas, Sascha Bron and
Angelika Budde.
Since 1991, Gunda Gottschalk has been a member of
Partita Radicale, a quintet for new and improvised
music. Besides developing original improvisation
cycles, Partita Radicale became known to a broader
audience through their silent movie programs with live
music, music theater productions and collaborations
with composers.
In 1994/95 the violinist met the bassist Peter Kowald,
who during this year carried out his project "365 Tage
am ORT" (365 Days in Place) in Wuppertal. She
performed in Peter Kowald's Ort-Ensemble and with
important international soloists for improvised music
such as Joelle Leandre, Carlos Zingaro, Even Parker.
1995-2002 Together with Xu Feng Xia she made up the
core trio of Peter Kowald's "Global Village" Ensemble,
which brought together musicians from radically
different cultural heritages. In ensembles ranging
from trio to sextet, "Global Village" concertized in
Europe and the USA. Among the many guest artists
collaborating with the trio were Jin Hi Kim, Savina
Yannatou, Pamela Z, Jeanne Lee, Otomo Yoshihide, Le
Quan Ninh. 
Since 1995 Gunda Gottschalk has worked with the
Belgian bassist Peter Jacquemyn. Their duo-CD "e
pericoloso sporgersi" was awarded a prize in the young
artist forum of the international Society for New
Music and Ensemble Modern. 
In 1998 the French pianist Christine Wodrascka founded
the Trio "KRIZDA" with Isabelle Duthuit and Gunda
Gottschalk.
Together with Thomas Beimel, Gunda Gottschalk received
a work and production stipend in 2001 from the Film
Foundation of North Rhine - Westphalia which was used
to realize the radio play "Das Paradies" (Paradise).
Solo tours in 2002 and 2003 took the musician all over
the USA. There she played with William Parker, Susie
Ibarra, Assif Tsahar, Michael Zerang, Oliver Lake and
Fred Frith among many others.
Gunda Gottschalk has been well represented on
festivals of contemporary and improvised music all
over Europe and is a regular guest at the avant-garde
festival "visions" in New York.

Xu Fegxia was born 1963 in Shanghai. When she was
seven years old she began to study Chinese string
instruments. Graduated from the famous Shanghai music
conservatory.
Xu Fengxia played four instruments: the "guzheng", the
"sanxian" the 7 stringed "guqin" and theChinese small
lute called "liuqin". After 1986 soloist at the
Shanghai orchestra for Chinese music. 1988 Germany
tour with this orchestra. At the same time acitve in
Shanghai`s first lady rockband. In the year 1989 was a
very successful solo concert with four instruments in
Singapore 1990 the first concert with jazzmusicians at
the "People´s Theatre in Shanghai 1991 she moved to
Germany 
Since 1992 member of the Gufeng Ensemble, a group of
four Chinese top musicians living in Germany. With the
Gufeng Ensemble productions at Athens International
Music Festival, "Bayrischer Rundfunk"Munich and in the
year of 2000 cooperation with the Stuttgart chamber
orchestra. 
>From 1991 to 1996 leader of Shanghai Connection, which
worked in various combinations from trio to septet
Shanghai Connection performed new compositions
combining traditional Chinese music with Jazz and
contemporary sounds. Concerts all over North-Rhine
Westfalia. In 1995 Xu begins to work with the bass
player Peter Kowald from Wuppertal. f.e. in his band
"Global Village" With Kowald on the stages of many
festivals such as Total Music Meeting, Taktlos
Festival, Canaille Frankfurt, Vision Festival New
York, Poschiavo Festival Switzerland, Pushkin Festival
Moscow. 
Since 1997 she has been a soloist in the works of many
contemporary Chinese Composers. f.e. Xu Shuya, Qu
Xiaosong, Chen Xiao-yong, Zhou Long with "Nieuw
Ensemble" Amsterdam, Ensemble "Recherche", "Bremen
Chamber Philharmony" and the Bavaria Radio Symhony
Orchestra. With the "Nieuw Ensemble" Amsterdam
travelled to Lisbon, Paris, Munich, Huddersfield (GB),
Amsterdam, Brussels and many other places. 

$10 gen/$8 student/senior/$5 artist
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