Maya Felixbrodt (IL/NL) - Viola
Clara Riviere (SP/NL) - Cello
Shaya Feldman (IL/BL) - Bass
Zvov is an international trio based in The Netherlands and Belgium. Instrumentally, it is a 'lower' version of the traditional classical string trio.
Zvov exists of interdisciplinary musicians - performers, composers and improvisers, who combine their varied, broad interests, experience, skills and practices into the overall ensemble creation.
Zvov's activity focuses on:
- Multi-stylistic musical approach (Contemporary music, Text, game pieces, improvisation etc.)
- Performance-improvisation-composition
- Interdisciplinary concepts
- Interactivity with new audiences
- Music-theater and multimedia creation
- Site-specific performance
- Embodiment within context
- Unusual concert settings
- Cross-media/genre collaborations
- The individual and the collective character of members
The multi-stylistic approach, both musically and artistically, is reflected in the trio's way of work and in the musical-artistic result: emerging from multiple musical branches, preliminary strong classical background, then new-contemporary, aleatoric, game pieces, text piece, different folk music, with the use of various improvisation techniques as main tool for exploration and research after bridges between genres, re-positioning up to removal of borders, invention and creation of new (musical) languages.
As a result, Zvov's repertoire ranges from existing written compositions - classical to new works composed especially for the trio, to concepts and pieces made by the trio members. The interdisciplinary character of Zvov members is strongly embodied: theater, text, poetry, gibberish, movement, performance and visual art are present elements.
Another aspect of Zvov's creation is investigation of the Space: from the beginning, unusual concert settings have been a center of focus for the trio, thus performances are always placed within the context. The performance space unique characteristics are an equal parameter in the concerts composition, including positioning of sound and movement of the players in space.
The mobility in space is also important for another basic component in Zvov's work: interaction with the audience. Zvov's concept are in large designed to be communicative and in relation with the audience. Each program has elements which allow the audience to be included, inspire on spot the concerts development and reflect symbiotic, equal relation between the ensemble and the audience. The borders between stage and audience are many times physically and conceptually removed. Zvov has much experience in interactive house concerts and has created many concepts, some performative, some more in a workshop setting that propose new ways of approaching and including new audiences.
Along side its own creation, Zvov is very open motivated in creating close collaborations with other musicians, composers, electronic musicians and more, from broad range of musical styles, as well as artists from different fields - fine arts, video, dance, theater, multimedia, performance-art and more. As Zvov's own creation is interdisciplinary to strat with, such interactions are naturally inspiring, enjoyable and important.
As a result, Zvov's repertoire ranges from existing written compositions - classical to new works composed especially for the trio, to concepts and pieces made by the trio members. The interdisciplinary character of Zvov members is strongly embodied: theater, text, poetry, gibberish, movement, performance and visual art are present elements.
Another aspect of Zvov's creation is investigation of the Space: from the beginning, unusual concert settings have been a center of focus for the trio, thus performances are always placed within the context. The performance space unique characteristics are an equal parameter in the concerts composition, including positioning of sound and movement of the players in space.
The mobility in space is also important for another basic component in Zvov's work: interaction with the audience. Zvov's concept are in large designed to be communicative and in relation with the audience. Each program has elements which allow the audience to be included, inspire on spot the concerts development and reflect symbiotic, equal relation between the ensemble and the audience. The borders between stage and audience are many times physically and conceptually removed. Zvov has much experience in interactive house concerts and has created many concepts, some performative, some more in a workshop setting that propose new ways of approaching and including new audiences.
Along side its own creation, Zvov is very open motivated in creating close collaborations with other musicians, composers, electronic musicians and more, from broad range of musical styles, as well as artists from different fields - fine arts, video, dance, theater, multimedia, performance-art and more. As Zvov's own creation is interdisciplinary to strat with, such interactions are naturally inspiring, enjoyable and important.
Bio
Zvov trio was established as Zvuv String trio, in 2013 in The Hague, with co-founder Violin player Cornelia Zambila (RO). The trio emerged out of an intensive collaboration initiated by and with Dutch Clarinetist Camille Verhaak.
It was born under the ideal of exploring bridges between various music genres through improvisation, as means of experiencing stronger connections with the audience and with the space where the performance takes place.
Gradually, the group evolved towards a dedicated ensemble with broad interests, highly embedded in the context but at the same time using as prime material the personality and quality of interaction between its members.
This quest is reflected in the sound of the trio, like a body which integrates different components into the same being, without rejecting the diversity of its parts: hence the title (Zvuv is mosquito in Hebrew).
Maya Felixbrodt
www.pninax.com
Maya Felixbrodt is an Israeli Violist, composer, improviser and electronic musician based in The Hague. She graduated BA in Viola in The Academy for Music and Dance, Jerusalem, BA and MA in composition in The Royal Conservatory, The Hague, including an exchange in MIAM, ITU, Istanbul.
Maya collaborates and preforms regularly with many musicians, artists and dancers in the Middle-east and Europe.
She's a regular member of several ensembles, including Goedlaak (NL), Zvov trio (NL/BL) and MavaRoz (TR).
Clara Rivière
https://clararivierecello.wordpress.com/
Clara Rivière is geboren in Madrid, Spanje. Ze studeerde cello aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium van Salamanca bij Aldo Mata. Ze heeft ook les gehad van Angel Luis Quintana, Wolfgang Boether, Jaap ter Linden, Marc Coppei, etc. Nu volgt ze een post-master studie bij Larissa Groeneveld aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium van Den Haag. Ze heeft met het Jorcam orkest gespeeld en was solist in het Osda orkest van het conservatorium van Salamanca in Spanje.
Shaya Feldman
Shaya Feldman is a contrabass player, composer and multi-disciplinary Dada artist. He is currently a doctoral student at Orpheus Instituut and University of Leiden, doing artistic research on the language of gibberish. He is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and the Conservatoire Nationale de Paris, and served as the head of the string instruments department at the Lod Conservatory in Israel. He has performed his original works in Europe, the USA and Israel and cooperates frequently with composers of contemporary music.
Zvuv performed and collaborated in NL, BG, RO, TR and IL in many projects and stages, among them are:
- Oct. 2014 - April 2015: Zvuv Sensory, Spring Festival, Koninklijk Conservatory, The Hague, KvB. Concept by Zvuv. Collaboration and workshop with composers Yvonne Freckman, Liisa Hirsch
- Aug. 2015 Workshops and concerts for children in Dascalu, Romania
- July-Aug. 2015: Cultruralis: Zvuv Insterdicsiplinary music summer camp, Jirlau, Romania. In collabration with Argentinian composer Juan Albarracin. Yearly summer camp, concept, production and exhecution by Zvuv.
- 2014-2015: Zvuvoice: Concerts and workshop in Antwerp and Brussels, in collaboration with vocalist and world musician Jackie Janssens. Ongoing collaborative project including meditation workshops, interactive house concerts, concerts and impro sets in various venues.
- Oct. 2014: Zvuv Impro set, Landen Eco Festival, Amsterdam
- Oct. 2014: Dreams workshop and cpncert at Cloud@DansLab, The Hague.
- Oct. 2014 Composers workshop, Kc, The Hague, Including various lectures (Writing for Strings - performance Extended Techniques Etudes, Laban analysis in composition) interactive activits and concerts
- Aug. 2014 Senory Theater performance at sunrise, Corbu Theater sumercamp, RO. In collaboration with actresses Roxana Elena Mancas and Simona Dabija.
- July-Aug. 2014: Cultruralis: Zvuv Insterdicsiplinary music summer camp, Jirlau, RO. Yearly summer camp - concept, program, production and execution by Zvuv.
- July 2014: Ison: Interactive installation-performance, Bucharest, RO. In collaboration with Romanian composer Darie Nemes.
- July 2014: Joc si Joaca (In games and play) Zvuv Festival, Mignon theater, Bucharest, RO. In collaboration with Romanian composers, electronic musicians, visual artists and theater makers. Including workshops for both children and adults and concerts.
- June 2014: Composers workshop, Kc, The Hague. Including lectures, workshops and concerts premiering new compositions.
- June 2014: Premiere of "Lament" by Greel composer Nikos Kokolakis, Reijnhof Cemetery, Leiden.
- April 2014: Various interactive house concerts, The Hague. In collaboration with Israeli Gibberish artist and Bassist Shaya Feldman.
- Feb. 2014: Zvuv Improvisation set and collaborative performance with live electronics with Israeli sound artist Amir Bolzman, Vila K, The Hague.
- Feb. 2014: Collaboration with Dutch painter and sculpture Dave Voorvelt concluded by an interactive concert at his house, The Hague.
- Jan. 2014: Premiere of new composition for string trio by Hungarian composer Georgi Sztojanov, Laak Theater, The Hague.
- Nov. 2013: Concerts of various classical and folk repertoire arranged by Zvuv, Laak Theater and Vineyard Laak, The Hague.
- April-May 2013: Zvuvim: an interactive performance with Penderecki Clarinet Quartet, Zvuvim - composition with latex scores by Maya Felixbrodt and free impro with Clarinetist Camille Verhaak in Sudio Loos, Korzo theater and ASzaal, Kc, The Hague.
