Anastasia Khitruk and Marija Ilic perform works by Michael Colina

anastasia khitruk

Marija Ilic

Anastasia Khitruk and Marija Ilic will perform the
music of Michael Colina, In a workshop setting they
will play Mr Colina's new Violin Concerto in piano reduction;
along with Colina's Der Golum, and The Notturno for Violin & Piano.

Der Golum is a Solo Violin Piece invoking the persona of the Iconic
Monster of Prague's Jewish Ghetto

The Violin Concerto entitled "Three Cabinets of Wonder",is inspired by Lawrence Weschler prize winning book " Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder".

As Weschler explains 16th & 17th century scientists and intellectuals, having experienced the discovery of the new world, were bringing back curiosities and objects that they collected into "museum's" . There they would bring others and stand utterly confounded and in awe at the curio's. These curio's, for them, might as well have been from outer space.
The objects varied from botanical, animal, mineral selections; even mechanical automata, to the most grotesque and bizarre specimens. i.e. preserved human fetus playing the violin with its umbilical chord as the bow.
The final twist amongst the cabinet's items was that some of the objects were entirely fake, simply constructs of the imagination!