Three Voices. Juliet Fraser | Ausencias

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The Absences cycle, curated by Desclasificados, invokes and summons current music artists and programs that are related to what is not heard. Since its inception, music has tried to give voice to the least heard and also to forgotten or silenced sounds, but they are not usually common in concert halls. With these absent voices we want to help balance that balance with repertoires and works that revolve around the unheard, the forgotten, both in a musical, philosophical and political sense.

Three voices. Juliet Fraser
Juliet Fraser, soprano
Newton Armstrong, sonido + electrónica

Repertoire
Three Voices (1982), Morton Feldman

The English soprano Juliet Fraser will interpret one of the most important and interesting works for the female voice of the 20th century. Three Voices (1982) by the American composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is articulated around three voices that represent two of his great friends, the poet Frank O'Hara, the painter Philip Guston, and Feldman himself. On stage there is a live voice and two voices recorded by the same singer, which represent the two friends, dead at the time of its composition. Voices that are not there but that are present in the work. O'Hara is present not only through music, Feldman takes up in this work a poem of his, Wind, that Fran O'Hara had dedicated to the composer: “Who'd have thought that snow falls it always circled whirling like a thought”; these lines of the poem are part of the text that Juliet Fraser will sing.

English soprano Juliet Fraser is internationally recognized as a performer committed to new music. Juliet regularly appears as a guest soloist with ensembles such as Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Remix, Talea and Quatuor Bozzini, and as a duo with pianist Mark Knoop. She is part of the vocal ensemble EXAUDI, which she co-founded with composer and conductor James Weeks in 2002. Juliet is also a curator of new repertoire and has worked closely with composers Laurence Crane, Pascale Criton, Bernhard Lang, Cassandra Miller and Rebecca Saunders. She is equally credited for breathing new life into existing works such as Milton Babbitt's Philomel, Morton Feldman's Three Voices and Gérard Grisey's Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil. Juliet's discography reflects the full breadth of her repertoire, with acclaimed recordings of early music performed with Collegium Vocale Gent, Gli Angeli Genève and EXAUDI released on Harmonia Mundi, Outhere and Winter & Winter, and solo albums of contemporary repertoire released on NEOS. , Kairos, HCR, Hat Hut and Other Timbre. Juliet is the founder and artistic director of London's underground listening festival and co-head of all that dust, a small independent new music label.

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