Frances-Marie Uitti and Ayman Fanous at Church Of The Ascension And Saint Agnes

"The spectacularly gifted cellist Frances-Marie Uitti has made a career out of demolishing musical boundaries. She has developed new techniques (most famously, playing with two bows simultaneously), collaborated with a who's who of contemporary composers, and pushed the cello into realms of unexpected beauty and expression. So the place to be Tuesday night for anyone interested in new music or the cello - or just innovative thinking in general - was St. Mary's Church in Foggy Bottom, where Uitti showed why she might be the most interesting cellist on the planet." -- Stephen Brookes, Washington Post 2/17/2011...

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"The spectacularly gifted cellist Frances-Marie Uitti has made a career out of demolishing musical boundaries. She has developed new techniques (most famously, playing with two bows simultaneously), collaborated with a who's who of contemporary composers, and pushed the cello into realms of unexpected beauty and expression. So the place to be Tuesday night for anyone interested in new music or the cello - or just innovative thinking in general - was St. Mary's Church in Foggy Bottom, where Uitti showed why she might be the most interesting cellist on the planet." -- Stephen Brookes, Washington Post 2/17/2011

Program:
Du Yun: San (with electronics)
Gyorgy Kurtag: Homage to John Cage
Ken Ueno: Age of Aircraft (with electronics)
Giacinto Scelsi: Voyages - Le Fleuve Magique/Il Allait Seul
Annie Gosfield: A Luminous Reflection of Metallic Direction (with electronics)
Intermission
Improvised pieces for cello and guitar

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