Westport Jazz Presents: Bianca Gannon & Filippo Vignato

BIANCA GANNON - piano & percussion |

& FILIPPO VIGNATO - solo trombone & effects

' Two solo artists, one night - progressive, immersive new jazz sounds - expansive and beautiful '

Two really progressive and avant garde artists in the improvised jazz world share a night of their solo performances at Westport Jazz.

Bianca Gannon

Bianca Gannon is a Musician-Composer from Galway, currently based in Mayo and in Belfast. Inspired by her decade-long exchange with Indonesia, Bianca performs resonance drenched piano and percussion at the same time. Global performances include with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, with International Contemporary Ensemble, and at EFG London Jazz Festival, group collaborations at Galway International Arts Festival, Hugh Lane Gallery and Improvised Music Company's The Cooler.

“A New Music luminary” - ClassikON

“Mind-blowing” - ABC Classic FM

Described by JOLT as “redefining the idiom”, Bianca Gannon is a multidisciplinary art music composer and improviser. Exploring the surprising parallels and connections between seemingly disparate concepts, her free improvisations and instant-compositions traverse time, form and genre. The other-worldly extended harmonies and tunings of simultaneous piano + gamelan + singing bowls create an ethereal lyricism layered with pulsating different tones. Unique timbres, ritualistic rhythms, jazz grooves and post-classical references resonate in an expansive timelessness. A recipient of the Indonesian Arts and Culture Scholarship, her Indonesian field-research and collaborations inform her music in surprising ways.

Filippo Vignato  - 'All About Dreaming' -

is a solo trombone performance by Italian trombonist Filippo Vignato to adapt and interact with the different acoustic dimensions of different spaces: an essential and minimalist dialogue with the echoes, reverbs and resonances of the place to be discovered and to be immersed in during the concert for both the performer and the audience. The strong relationship and interaction with the space redefine the musical and performative narration over time, in a continuous exploration of the expressive sonic and acoustic possibilities of the environment through free improvisation.

Reworking the link between performing art and the concert form, All About Dreaming is an all-encompassing experience for musician and audience, enveloped by the same sound and the same space in a timeless dreamlike dimension, following the path created by European historical trombone legends like Albert Mangelsdorff and Paul Rutherford.

The performance has been developed through several site-specific performances and residencies in historical buildings, churches and exposition spaces such as Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, Chiesa di San Filippo Neri in Fermo (MC), Pinacoteca San Domenico in Fano (PU), Tempio di San Michele in Perugia.

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Venue Information - Clew Bay Hotel