DAVID VIRELLES: GNOSIS FEATURING, ROMAN DIAZ

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

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NY Times

FRIDAY & SArURDAYCO·PRESENTED WITH ARRAYMUSIC AND LULA MUSIC AND ARTS

Gnosis is a must-see event; a unique artistic Cuban Abakua experience from one of the foremost innovators in jazz today.

ECM recording artist and former Torontonian David Virelles takes Cuban music places it's never been. He is capable of tropically intense polyrhythms and irregular but internally logical phrasing, which befits an artist who came to jazz through Thelonious Monk, Andrew Hill, and Bud Powell. Since moving to New York about 5 years ago, David has worked with Henry Threadgill, Andrew Cyrille, and many more.

David returns to Toronto with an ambitious project for which Vi relies specifically sought out the Music Gallery to produce the North American premiere of his large scale composition entitled Gnosis. We are partnering with Arraymusic to bring this incredible music to North America for its North American premiere!

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Futuristic Afro-Cuban chamber music concepts

This work marks the very first time that Abakua drums have ever been used in a chamber setting. Virelles incorporates percussive vocabulary with chamber instrumentation of the Array Ensemble and a kaleidoscope of orchestral and folkloric percussion, featuring master drummer Roman Diaz. Accompanied and augmented by visual elements, this will be a seismic event for creative music in Canada in 2015.

As a bonus, David will invoke the spirits at the beginning each evening with a set of solo piano.

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CONCERT SCI-IEDULE

09.15 TO 01.16

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ALLER TORONTO'S CENTRE

FOR CREATIVE MUSIC