Event

Eviyan

Eviyan
Saturday, April 5, 2014
7pm $20/$18 Members

Iva Bittová, violin, vocal
Gyan Riley, guitar
Evan Ziporyn, clarinet

"The music Eviyan plays is harder to describe, in a way, than its genealogy. Bittová is a singer with one foot in the world of Eastern European folk music and the other in the contemporary avant-garde. Riley, whose father is the minimalist pioneer Terry Riley, is a nimble guitarist with an exploratory ear and a technique steeped in both Western and Indian classical traditions. And Ziporyn has built his career from the outset around ideals of cultural cross-pollination, in his own work as a composer for both Western instruments and Balinese gamelan, and in his active performing life as a clarinetist. In the latter category, Ziporyn has played for two decades with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, a quintessentially genre-bending New York ensemble of which he was a core member. The trio, in essence, is a flexible vehicle for its members' own compositions, which collectively draw from classical, folk, jazz, post-minimalist, and non-Western traditions." The Boston Globe