Peter Vukmirovic Stevens Mara Gearman FERAL ICONS

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0:00 III. Sanctuary (Mara Gearman, viola) • Highlighting the viola’s rich and melodic quality, composer Peter Vukmirovic Stevens’ second release on Navona Records, FERAL ICONS, is a suite of six works for solo viola performed by Mara Gearman of Seattle Symphony. The work captures the raw and expressive energy of Stevens’ impassioned compositional style, inviting the listener on an emotional narrative. • • Through primal driving tempos and deep melodic phrases, the title track sets the scene for the musical journey, expertly emphasizing the viola’s lower register. Gearman continues through rich and meditative harmonies found in Sovereign, I, and lingers in a place of refuge created by the loving single melodic line in Sanctuary. Ex Nihilo derives its title from the Latin phrase meaning “to create out of nothing.” Stevens expresses this theme by using gravelly harmonies and aggressive double stops, bringing the movement to a dissonant and unresolved conclusion. Stevens continues his passionate work with the stately opening rhythms of Bloodlines, evolving into lyrical passages accompanied by a droning second voice and climaxing in a rhapsodic quasi-cadenza. Culminating with rich and cantabile melodies, Black and Gold peacefully completes Stevens’ six piece suite. • • Peter Vukmirovic Stevens is the co-founder and serves as the Artistic Director of the Seattle Pianist Collective. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Cornish College of Arts and has studied with Bern Herbolshiemer and Samuel Jones in Seattle WA, and with Bodham Bubak in Prague, Czech Republic. Mara Gearman is a Seattle native and currently performs with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. She has also been Principal Viola for the Kansas City Symphony and Los Angeles Opera.

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