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Romano Crivici
9+ albums
contemporary classicalcomposergammarecaustralian2juma
about
Romano Crivici is one of Australia’s few contemporary composer/performers (violin and piano). In pioneering the integration of technology, improvisation and cross-cultural collaborations within the classical tradition, he has created a genre unique to contemporary music making. He has also worked to build musical and cultural bridges in Australia, and in subtle ways created dialogues that addressed some of the issues, past and present which his country faces. This has involved collaborating with artists from many cultures and performance styles, including long working relationships with Australian indigenous artists, Indian/Jazz fusion artists, Javanese percussionists and traditional Tibetan performers within the various multi-media formats he has devised. To these ends Crivici founded the Elektra String Quartet as a disciplined and flexible ensemble that could work within many cross cultural art-forms and give voice to his musical visions, as well as commission and perform works by various Australian composers. He balanced this with membership in the hard-to-categorise, outrageously creative and humorous improvising group, The Paranormal Music Society. Since 2003 he has increasingly shifted his attention from performing with the Elektra String Quartet to composition, and, in a way that strangely parallels and deepens his creative process, is engaged in the study of anthropology at the University of Sydney. Reflecting the larger scale of the works he creates, Crivici has e
top songs
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String Quartet No. 5 "Gregorian Funk": IV. Passacaglia
672Passing Thought
243On the Rebound
224String Quartet No. 4 "Undercurrents": II. Allegro
175Flat Earth
166The Ecstasy of Clouds
157Ebb and Flow
148Whirligig
149String Quartet No. 4 "Undercurrents": V. Adagio
1310String Quartet No. 4 "Undercurrents": I. Poco andante
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