Ar hyn of bryd mae'r cynnwys hwn ar gael yn Saesneg yn unig.
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Ar hyn of bryd mae'r cynnwys hwn ar gael yn Saesneg yn unig.
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Angharad Davies
Angharad Davies’ thorough grounding in the techniques of free improvisation and her extensive exploration of the violin’s sonic potential, have enabled her to defiantly break the bonds of her classical upbringing. The resulting sound world has enthralled audiences around the world and it has been written of her music that it “…transports us to another land-scape altogether. We are strangers here and that is good.” (Tempo Magazine, July 2022)
Education
The London-based violinist and composer was born in Aberystwyth and grew up in a musical family - she is the daughter of an amateur trumpeter and brother of the experimental harpist Rhodri Davies - and spent her early years in choirs, school and county orchestras, Aberystwyth Town Band and Philomusica . She went on to study the violin at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and later with Charles-Andre Linale in Düsseldorf and Howard Davis in London.
Performing career
Angharad Davies soon established herself on the UK contemporary music scene and is now in great demand both as a solo and an ensemble performer. She has long standing duo partnerships with Tisha Mukarji, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Common Objects, Cranc and Skogen.
Davies’ impressive CV also includes work with artists including Tarek Atui, Tony Conrad, Laura Cannell, Jack McNamara, and Juliet Stephenson. She has also collaborated with French composer Éliane Radigue, who wrote the solo violin work OCCAM XXI for her in 2015. (Davies will perform Radigue’s Occam Ocean with Dominic Lash and Rhodri Davies in February – see details below.)
Recording artist
Davies has an extensive discography which runs to more than 50 album recordings on which she has appeared alongside musicians as diverse as Axel Dörner, Georgia Ruth, John Tilbury, The Magic Numbers and Richard Dawson. Dawson described Davies' idiosyncratic violin playing on his album as “being like a layer of frost, or maybe dew, or maybe like a light fog, just clinging to everything”
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The composer
Angharad Davies’ compositions include Solo Violin and Four Bass Amps, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show, and the 2019 London Contemporary Music Festival commissioned orchestral work I ble’r aeth y gwrachod I gyd…? (Where did all the witches go...?) Davies has also been commissioned by Explore Ensemble and GBSR Duo.
2025 will see the premieres of her new work for violin and viola which was commissioned by andPlay and a duet for double bass and clarinets which will be performed by Dominic Lash and Heather Roche.
Upcoming performances
30 January 2025, 7pm (Fitzrovia Chapel, London W1T 3BF)
IN ATTENDANCE - Paying attention in a fragile world
An exhibition of works from the David and Indre Roberts Foundation, at the Fitzrovia Chapel from 8th January to 9th February. Davies will play a violin solo in response to the art works on show.
8 February 2025, 4pm (Arnolfini, Bristol)
Three works about the shifting dynamics of relationships and the new perspectives granted by death and its enforced changes. Empty Spaces II uses samples of Angharad Davies’s violin playing to allow Siwan Rhys to ‘play’ the absent soloist.
The violin is used as a jumping-off point for an exploration of absence and a clearing of imaginary space. Rydal Mount (for GBSR and Davies) is a piece rooted in the familiar task of house emptying – in this case the score is constituted by a series of photographs of items discovered and collected by Davies while clearing a relative’s house, the piece breathing new life into a frozen, inaccessible time.
Davies’s amazing solo ‘unravelling’ of the violin, Solo Violin and Four Bass Amps, completes the programme.
15 February 2025 (Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2)
Eliane Radigue: Occam Ocean Davies plays solos, duos and trios with Rhodri Davies and Dominic Lash.
22 February 2025, 6pm (Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Chicago, IL) Frequency Festival, Chicago Davies performs her new work for solo violin.
27 February 2025 (Café Oto, London E8 3DL )
Davies performs with Sachiko M and Lina Lapelyte.
