unQuartet Raw with Laura Swankey

Tuesay June 18, 2019 at 7:30
Tickets $25 / $10 students / $5 Sistema students
Cash only at the door
Reserve tickets at info@gallery345.com.

unQuartet focuses on free improvisation, inspiring a new string quartet experience. They have collaborated with dancers, aerial artists, poets and painters to create beauty in interdisciplinary spontaneous creation. They draw the listener deeper into the music experience by performing original work never to be experienced again.

With violinist Meghan Cheng, violist Nelson Moneo and cellist Cheryl O connecting through the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity residencies, each of the members of unQuartet has traditional classical training with expansion into contemporary, jazz, improvisation and electronic music. Though originally a true string quartet of two violinists, a violist and a cellist, the sudden loss of their viola player encouraged them to reform and tighten the group to become an improvising trio, thus becoming even more an unQuartet.
www.unquartet.com

Canadian vocalist/ composer/ improviser Laura Swankey is known for her versatility, artistry, vocal aptitude and open mindedness. She has worked with artists such as Juno award-winner Mike Murley, Poet Laureate Dennis Lee, Christine Duncan, Mark Feldman and Ralph Alessi, and premiered works by Juliet Palmer, Lieke van der Voort, Tova Kardonne, Elio Villafranca and Mike McCormick. Recently Laura has been collaborating with and touring through Canada, parts of America and Scandinavia with Proxemics, Star Triptych, Jazz Bras Dot Com, Delusions of Grandeur, and her solo project. In 2018 Laura joined the University of Toronto and Humber College as an instructor in their respective music departments.