Event Detail

Archive
DMA recital IV
Ilana Waniuk - violin, visuals 
Works by: Julia Mermelstein, Germaine Liu, Ben Wylie, Ilana Waniuk 
With: Teresa Díaz de Cossio - flutes, objects, electronics

Program:
Germaine Liu - Puzzle Piece (2019)* - violin, objects
Ben Wylie - Acousmonium III (2019)* - violin, electronics
Julia Mermelstein - Inner forms (2019)* - for solo violin, movement, electronics 
-intermission-
Ilana Waniuk + Teresa Díaz de Cossio - Archive (2023) - for flutes, violin, objects, electronics, fixed and live visuals

About the Program:
Archive features three works that are part of an ongoing collaborative concert project called 'Filaments' for violin and electronics by artists/composers from across Canada and the U.S. Initiated in 2018 by Ilana Waniuk with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the SOCAN Foundation, each collaboration explores what happens when electroacoustic, multimedia, or improvisational elements stretch the boundaries of what it means to compose/perform/create works for ‘solo’ violin. 

Following a brief intermission, Ilana will be joined by Teresa Díaz de Cossio to perform 'Archive' (2023), an ongoing modular, audiovisual project dedicated to exploring memory, ritual and connection. Created by Ilana Waniuk in collaboration with Teresa Díaz de Cossio, Archive currently consists of a set of IV modules (artifacts) intended to be used as invitations for collaborative audiovisual improvisation and experimentation. Artifacts take the form of video scores, live visuals, graphic or text scores, field recordings and objects.

*Commissioned by Ilana Waniuk with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Ilana Waniuk is a versatile violinist and contemporary chamber music addict with interests ranging from classical music and improvisation to visual arts. Along with pianist Cheryl Duvall, she is a founding member and co-artistic director of Tkarón:to (Toronto) -based contemporary music ensemble/presenter Thin Edge New Music Collective (TENMC) now in its twelfth season and Balancing on the Edge (multidisciplinary production melding circus arts with new music). Ilana is also a founding member of in^set, a flexible trio with Teresa Díaz de Cossio (flute) and David Aguila (trumpet) dedicated to creation, improvisation and experimentation. 

Ilana can be heard on several recent recordings including Thin Edge New Music Collective’s ‘Dark Flower’ and ‘field studies, Chamber Music of Emilie Cecilia LeBel’ (2023). Her performance of LeBel’s ‘further migration’ for solo violin was praised by Peter Margasak for “producing a stunning range of sound and texture” (Best Contemporary Classical: May 2023). ‘Dark Flower’ has made its way to Bandcamp's Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2023,The Wire’s prestigious Adventures in New Music's top 10 list of 2023 and has been featured on CBC Radio, and BBC Radio 3.

Ilana has toured Cape Breton and Ontario as part of the Bicycle Opera Project, performed at contemporary music festivals including the California Festival in San Diego, Neofonía: Festival de Música Ensenada in Mexico, Suoni per Il Popolo in Montreal, the University of Calgary’s Happening Festival of New Music and Media, Open Ears in Kitchener/Waterloo and the Royal Conservatory’s 21C festival in Tkarón:to. Ilana is passionate about collaboration, creation and community building through the arts and is currently a doctoral candidate in contemporary performance at the University of California San Diego.

Teresa Díaz de Cossio is a flutist and an active member of in^set, a flexible chamber ensemble dedicated to creation, improvisation, experimentation, and collaboration. She has had the opportunity of performing with Los Tigres del Norte, and has been a fellow at The Banff Center, the Darmstadt Summer Institute, Curating Diversity (Sounds Now, Finland), and the Future of Music Faculty Fellowship (Cleveland Institute of Music, Sphinx Foundation). As a scholar, Teresa has presented her research on the composer Alida Vázquez at Unsung Stories: Women at Columbia's Computer Music Center and the International Musicological Society (Greece), and her work has been published in Radical Sounds of Latin America and the series Musicians’ Migratory Patterns by Routledge. 

Currently, Teresa is a doctoral candidate at the University of California San Diego, where she is mentored by Wilfrido Terrazas and Amy Cimini. She is also a co-producer at Neofonia, Festival de Música Nueva in Ensenada– a space for exploration and collaboration between communities, and as a teacher at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Teresa looks forward to making meaningful contributions to the community, both through her performances and her scholarly pursuits. Now, she is excited to join the Density Fellows program!