GIGS
• February 16 – March 14
“Dazzling violin phenom” (Boston Globe) Mimi Rabson will premiere newly commissioned work for solo violin by renowned Berklee College of Music composers in four Boston-area concerts, February 16 – March 14. The new body of music showcases the violin’s new voice in the 21st century, embodying contemporary genres, technology, and urban street cred. The composers commissioned by Rabson include jazz great Joanne Brackeen, Latin vibraphonist Victor Mendoza, interactive composer Neil Leonard, turntable guru Stephen Webber, jazz/funk bassist Winston Maccow, and guitar luminary Norm Zocher. The works draw from jazz, funk, rock, Latin, hip-hop and contemporary classical music, and utilize improvisation, effects pedals, new performance techniques, and interactive computer performance.
The collaboration between this unique group of composition masters and world-class violinist Rabson produces a new musical vocabulary for the violin that bends genres and redefines the role of the contemporary violinist.
She’ll be premiering the Berklee Violin Solos.
• Monday, Feb. 16
Longy School of Music, Jewett Hall of First Church, Cambridge, MA
10 a.m. President’s Day.
Free and open to the public. 617-876-0956, www.longy.edu
• Thursday, Feb. 19
Berklee College of Music,
David Friend Recital Hall, Boston, MA
921 Boylston Street,
in the Uchida Building
7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. (617) 266-1499 www.berklee.edu
• Monday, Feb. 23
The Boston Conservatory 8 The Fenway Boston, MA
7 p.m. Free and open to the public. (617) 536-6340 www.bostonconservatory.edu
• Saturday, March 14
South Shore Conservatory 1 Conservatory Drive Hingham, MA
5 – 6 p.m. Free to SSC students; non-SSC students: $10. (781) 749-7565
Part of Conservatory’s First ever String Workshop Day, SSC.