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Frances-Marie Uitti (born 1946) is an American cellist and composer known for her use of extended techniques and performance of contemporary classical music. Tom Service, music critic for the Guardian newspaper, has called her "arguably the world's most influentially experimental cellist."
Frances-Marie Uitti. "The spectacularly gifted cellist Frances-Marie Uitti has made a career out of demolishing musical boundaries. She has developed new techniques (most famously, playing with two bows simultaneously), collaborated with a who's who of contemporary composers, and pushed the cello into realms of unexpected beauty and expression....
Frances-Marie Uitti, composer/performer, pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multivoiced writing.
Find top songs and albums by Frances-Marie Uitti including Three Latin Prayers for Solo Voice: Ave Maria for Violoncello Solo, Ygghur for Violincello Solo: I. Old Age and more.
Frances-Marie Uitti is an American cellist and composer known for her use of extended techniques and performance of contemporary classical music.
Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti is best known for her unprecedented technique of using two bows to create multiple timbres and chordal voicings with a cello. Uitti has collaborated with a variety of composing…
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Frances-Marie Uitti is a rare breed among classical musicians; her double-bowed textural improvisations place her far outside the usual orbits. Interview by Ben Watson.
