JENNI RODITI (UK)

GENRE:
Modern composition, opera, choral, chamber, orchestral and vocal music, in the best European theatrical and sacred minimalist school traditions.

MORE ABOUT:
Jenni Roditi moves from minimal to maximal through distinctive composition and genre shifting voice. Singer composer, big canvas creator, vocal extender, emotional engager, her music defies definition and simultaneously creates it own. Tonight musicians she has recently been collaborating with will join her.

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY:
- “Devotion that Moves the Heart” (for 8 voices and keyboard) (2005)

PRESS REVIEWS:
“Her interest lies in recent developments in voice production and expression, and her work, both as performer and composer, shows this to a degree unmatched by any other contemporary creative musician in Britain.” (Musical Opinion Magazine)

“A huskily eloquent tale-spinner, a passionate narrator between some robustly written ensembles. A score characterised by a vigorous near minimalism.” (The Times)

“Echoes ranging from Sondheim and Reich to African and Middle Eastern rhythms and cantillations.” (The Independent)

“A beautiful, meditative, immediately accessible score.” (Musical Opinion Magazine)

“Jenni Roditi’s Spirit Child had the energy, the urgency and the directness of expression that so much well-intentioned new music lacks. I don’t know if Spirit Child will ever melt stony hearts in Beijing, but it certainly melted mine. The ardent lyricism that emerged… in Roditi’s opera Inanna was sustained here.” (The Independent)

“It was Jenni Roditi who provided by far the best piece. A brittle, occasionally even brash, somewhat Varesian work, full of panache and a fine sense of how to handle such drama in orchestral terms.” (Classical Music Magazine)

“A meditatively powerful musical form. Simple and striking melodic colours. Textures of silk and velvet.” (Evening Standard)

“The music showed originality.” (The Observer)

“Casts aside many of the operatic connotations in favour of a highly approachable piece, which would almost be as acceptable in concert form.” (The Stage)

LINKS:
www.jenni-roditi.com
www.myspace.com/jenniroditi

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