Monica Germino is a Dutch American violinist. A Dutch American is an inhabitant of the United States of whole or partial Dutch ancestry The following lists of violinists are available List of classical violinists, names of great violinist from baroque era till 20th century
She is primarily a soloist, but she sometimes performs as part of an ensemble. In Music, a solo (from the Italian solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer A musical ensemble is a group of two or more Musicians who perform instrumental or vocal Music. She has worked with many composers, including Louis Andriessen, Martin Bresnick, John Cage, Michael Gordon, György Ligeti, and Christian Wolff. Louis Andriessen ( June 6, 1939) is a Dutch Composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. Martin Bresnick (born 1946 in New York, New York) is a composer of Contemporary classical music. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> John Milton Cage Jr Michael Gordon is an American composer and co-founder of the Bang on a Can festival and ensemble Christian Wolff may refer to Christian Wolff (philosopher (1679-1754 German philosopher and mathematician Christian Wolff (composer She has worked with Andriessen since 1994, playing many of his solo and ensemble pieces. Many new pieces have been written for her including a solo violin piece and a double concerto (performed together with singer Cristina Zavalloni) by Louis Andriessen, a work for violin and sampler by Heiner Goebbels, and a large-scale piece for electric violin and soundtrack by Jacob ter Veldhuis. Cristina Zavalloni (born in 1973 in Bologna, Italy) is a contemporary Italian Singer and Composer who focuses primarily on Jazz and
She has recorded for Basta, BMOP, and Attacca. Her primary teachers were Syoko Aki, Vera Beths, James Buswell, and the Tokyo String Quartet. The Tokyo String Quartet, ( 東京クヮルテット) is an internationally renowned String quartet.
Germino holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and Yale University. In 1999, she helped found the ensemble ELECTRA, a four-person modern music ensemble based in the Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands In 2003, she began performing with a custom-made electric violin made by Violectra. An electric violin is a Violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound Violectra is the trade name of an electric violin produced by Barcus-Berry with the pitch equivalent of an acoustic tenor violin sometimes called baritone violin
Discography
- JacobTV / SUITES OF LUX (2007)
Box 3 in the JacobTV series label: Basta Music 2CD | 3091 752 includes Monica Germino performing the title track SUITES OF LUX, a large-scale, half-hour work for electric violin & soundtrack
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