"Your playing is eternally striking -unbelievable speed and character!" Jonathan Harvey

new!

Ms Uitti has been invited to take over next year's edition of Contemporary Music Review (London). She will base the entire issue on improvisation with interviews from players, video artists, and performance artists in the field.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Arcana-Musicians on Music edited John Zorn: An Adventure: F M Uitti, history and explanation of the 2 Bow Technique

Frances-Marie Uitti is now writing an extensive book commissioned by the University of California Press on Contemporary Cello Techniques. In this she will cover all the developments and expansions of the cello from 1915 until the present and also include composer interviews that will provide performance practice ideas and suggestions for selected repertoire. The book is massive at 60.000 words and will contain illustrations of techniques, musical scores as well as charts for composers, gradation of technical difficulites of contemporary scores for new appassionati, and many tricks of the trade.

Recently published, she contributed the chapter, The Frontiers of Technique in the Cambridge University Press Companion to the Cello which is considered a classic. In it the development of cello techniques is traced through the Darmstadt experimental era covering the uses of different bows and preparations, new repertoire, percussives, use of the voice and new uses of both hands. Professor Robin Stowell is the editor of this collection of essays from leading cellists from around the world.

Preserving the Scelsi Improvisations
Frances-Marie Uitti - "Tempo" - October 1995

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Home · Compositions and repertoire · Press and reviews · Publications
Interviews · Two bows · News · Links · Biography · Professorial
Discography · Sounds and images · Friends and heroes · Tours and contact info