Inside Out Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Michelle O'Rourke, Katinka Fogh Vindelev

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004:
• 1 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemanda 02:38
• 2 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: II. Corrente 01:33
• 3 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: III. Sarabanda 02:41
• 4 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: IV. Giga 02:39
• 5 Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona (Arr. M. O’Rourke for Violin & 2 Voices) 14:46
• John Cage (1912 - 1992): Cheap Imitation (Version for Solo Violin):
• 6 Cage: Cheap Imitation (Version for Solo Violin): I. — 07:27
• 7 Cage: Cheap Imitation (Version for Solo Violin): II. — 07:33
• 8 Cage: Cheap Imitation (Version for Solo Violin): III. — 23:10
• John Cage: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs:
• 9 Cage: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (Arr. D. Dramm for Voice & Violin) 02:37
• Total Runtime 01:05:04

Info for Inside Out

The young violinist Diamanda La Berge Dramm ventures to bridge music of the baroque with modern. In her GENUIN debut album, the Dutch artist interweaves the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and John Cage. In her collaboration with singers Michelle O'Rourke and Katinka Fogh Vindelev, the boundaries between singing and instrumental playing dissolve, and the production of sound itself becomes a highly exciting parameter. From the layers of depth in Bach's great Chaconne to the cobweb-thin tapestry of John Cage's genre-bending compositions, the violinist takes us on an exciting sonic journey that reveals her to be an artist who is as mature as she is inquisitive.

Diamanda La Berge Dramm, violin
Michelle O’Rourke, soprano
Katinka Fogh Vindelev, soprano

Diamanda La Berge Dramm
was born in Amsterdam in 1991 and began playing the violin at the age of four. Having grown up in the Netherlands among the leading figures of the Dutch classical, avant-garde and improvisational music scenes, she incorporates all of these influences into her own concerts.

She studied with James Buswell and Nicholas Kitchen (bachelor’s degree, The New England Conservatory), and with Vera Beths (master’s degree, The Royal Conservatory of The Hague). In April 2018, Diamanda became the first string soloist to win the Dutch Classical Talent Tour & Award. Other awards include the John Cage Award, the Nicolai Prize, the Kersjes Violin Award, and the Deutschlandfunk Förderpreis.

She has worked extensively with modern music luminaries such as Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Gunther Schuller, Chaya Czernowin, George Benjamin, and Georg Friedrich Haas. In 2018, together with Garth Knox, she released the Violin Spaces series: a brand new set of concert etudes focusing on extended techniques. Diamanda teaches these techniques in her international masterclasses.

Her longtime collaboration with UK poet SJ Fowler resulted in the EP Beastings in 2019. As part of her residency at the Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Diamanda created a project around Charles Ives’ Violin Sonata, No. 5, which included a CD and a corresponding website. As one of the founders of Splendor Amsterdam, she regularly gives and hosts concerts there.

Diamanda resides in Utrecht. She plays with an Andreas Grütter bow (2015) on an Andranik Gaybaryan violin (2014), purchased with the generous support of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrumentenfonds.

Michelle O’Rourke
is a singer based in Dublin, Ireland. Her natural sound, unaffected expressivity, and technical ability make for an interpreter of rare dynamism. Michelle combines her background in Baroque music with an adventurous eclecticism and an interest in interdisciplinary work. She is passionate about the commissioning and performance of new vocal music.

Michelle has worked closely with many composers, including: Ann Cleare, Andrew Hamilton, Simon O’Connor, Karen Power, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Garrett Sholdice. Notable releases include Andrew Hamilton: Music for People and Left Behind: Songs of the 1916 Widows.

Michelle is ever fascinated by the seemingly endless expressive facility of the human voice; how singers have been centric to ritual performance for centuries, and how we continue as performers to evolve the interpretative and performa tive role of voice.

Katinka Fogh Vindelev
is a Danish classically trained soprano, performer and composer. Katinka’s work is grounded in an extensive voice training, a primary source for exploring new hybrids of compositional and performative territories.

Working within the scene of contemporary classical music, she recently sang at The Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen in the premiere of a new opera Liebestod – en opera:tion, performing alongside extended vocalist Sofi a Jernberg.

Katinka’s voice composition, Moonologue, was created in collaboration with visual artist Marie Kølbæk Iversen and features countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen and Vindelev herself. It was a commission from LOUISIANA – Museum of Modern Art and was performed at The Moon exhibition there. Subsequently Moonologue was released as a CD recording.

Katinka is a member of We like We, a Danish composers collective, with whom she has written an opera and released three albums. Katinka also performs with her partner, sound artist Jacob Kirke gaard.

Booklet for Inside Out