7:30 PM Vox Venefica
Valentina Osinski - voice/
Chiara Viscomi - voice/
Eli Wallace - piano
8:30 PM Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - saxes, flute/
Brett Carson - piano/
Bill Noertker - contrabass/
Jason Levis - drums
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Vox Venefica is a brand-new collaboration between vocalists
Valentina Osinski and
Chiara Viscomi, accompanied by pianist
Eli Wallace. Their various influences are distilled through one unifying ethos: an exploration of the sonic tapestries of the female voice and experience: from ethereal to chthonic; and refined to raw, uninhibited, and undomesticated. Ultimately, this exploration is fueled by allowing the music to become a channel for the collective un/conscious, by duende, and by the relationship between performers and audience.
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Valentina Osinski has sung as a soloist throughout the US for major opera companies such as San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, and Opera Theater of St. Louis, has performed for Hillary Clinton at the Palace of Fine Arts, sung on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on MTV, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, at the Seattle Center, and as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. Valentina was an award-winning vocal arranger with her a cappella group Screaming Divas, and recently received the 2014 Bay Area Theatre Critic Circle Award for Featured Actress for her portrayal of Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles. Her newly commissioned show "Edith Piaf: Beneath Paris Skies" opened for an extended run in January 2015 at Cinnabar Theater to unanimous, rave reviews. Ms. Osinski currently performs with Tri-Cornered Tent Show and is at work producing and recording her solo chill wave music project Nymphya.
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Chiara Viscomi is a vocalist, pianist, composer, improviser, and multimedia artist. A classically trained coloratura soprano, she draws upon a wide variety of influences, from the sounds of the Silk Road and the Balkans to free jazz to “voice as instrument” to extended vocal techniques incorporating loops and electronics.
Ms. Viscomi is currently in the process of recording an album for her solo project, called ChiaraOscuro. A graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, she is also the recipient of several awards and honors for her multimedia performances and arts scholarship, including the Works in Progress Award from New York University, the Artward Bound residency from The Field NYC, and the Jill Mellick Award for Excellence in Creative Expression from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
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Eli Wallace, pianist/composer/improviser, is an active player in the San Francisco Bay Area music community, playing in groups ranging from straight-ahead jazz, to indie rock, to free improvisation, to classical music. In addition to Cabbages, Captain, & King, he also leads his concept ensemble Platform Series as well as his solo piano project. Recently, he performed a commissioned work at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY and Oberlin Dance Conservatory, San Francisco, CA with dancer/choreographer Randee Paufve. He was also awarded Honorable Mention after submitting his piece “Influx Rebellion” to the EarShot Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings. His musical education was granted by Lawrence University, Appleton WI, and New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, where he completed a bachelor’s of music and a master’s of music, respectively.
Cost: $10-15 sliding