"RESILIENCE"
" Resilience has been most frequently defined as positive adaptation despite adversity. Over the past 40 years, resilience research has begun to recognize that much of what seems to promote resilience originates outside of the individual. This has led to a search for resilience factors at the individual, family, community — and, most recently, cultural — levels." - CIHR
Béla Bartók - Solo Sonata, Croatian Songs
Zosha di Castri -"Patina", "Sprung Testament"
Sheila Silver -"Resilient Earth" Caprices
Dinuk Wijeratne - Sonata for violin & piano
Martha de Francisco - tonmeister
Leaf Music - album producer
Jean Paul Desjardins - video
Zosha di Castri -"Patina", "Sprung Testament"
Sheila Silver -"Resilient Earth" Caprices
Dinuk Wijeratne - Sonata for violin & piano
Martha de Francisco - tonmeister
Leaf Music - album producer
Jean Paul Desjardins - video
Domaine Forget - recording venue
Dear friends,
I invite you to join me on a very special journey - to record and tour my debut solo album titled "Resilience."
Inspired by Béla Bartók's ground-breaking musical legacy of cross-cultural exploration for the renewal of our shared musical heritage, RESILIENCE speak directly to the current global challenge we face today. Centred around Bartók’s monumental Solo Violin Sonata, this project presents the unique voices and trail-blazing works of three award-winning living composers: the world premiere of "Resilient Earth" Caprices for violin written specifically for this album by Prix de Rome award-winning American composer Sheila Silver, "Patina" for solo violin and"Sprung Testament" for violin & piano by Juno-nominated Canadian-American composer Zosha di Castri, and the newly revised Sonata for violin & piano by Juno award-winning Canadian-Sri Lankan composer Dinuk Wijeratne. The album is bookended by newly arranged selections from Bartók’s Serbo-Croatian, Rumanian & Turkish Folk Songs archived at Columbia University and recently made publicly available for the first time.
"Resilience" is an expression of the uniquely creative voices and artistic relationships between the collaborators involved in this project and an exploration of how diverse musical languages build on the tradition of cross-cultural musical synthesis first pioneered by Bartók over a century ago. The project will be recorded by world-renowned tonmeister Martha de Francisco between February 17-24, 2022 in the beautiful setting and acoustically ideal concert hall at Domaine Forget in Charlevoix, Quebec and will be produced by the Halifax-based record label Leaf Music include a ‘making-of’ documentary video by Jean-Paul Desjardins. The project has received generous funding from the Canada Council for the Arts in support of the recording of the album and is now preparing to launch an international release tour starting in June 2022 to be managed by the Montreal-based agency Latitude 45 Arts. Inspired by Bartok's interest in peasant culture and also related to my own personal journey living and working on farms, the "RESILIENCE Release Tour" will include concerts in support of local sustainable agriculture farming communities and to raise awareness for migrant farm workers across Canada and abroad.
"Resilience" is an expression of the uniquely creative voices and artistic relationships between the collaborators involved in this project and an exploration of how diverse musical languages build on the tradition of cross-cultural musical synthesis first pioneered by Bartók over a century ago. The project will be recorded by world-renowned tonmeister Martha de Francisco between February 17-24, 2022 in the beautiful setting and acoustically ideal concert hall at Domaine Forget in Charlevoix, Quebec and will be produced by the Halifax-based record label Leaf Music include a ‘making-of’ documentary video by Jean-Paul Desjardins. The project has received generous funding from the Canada Council for the Arts in support of the recording of the album and is now preparing to launch an international release tour starting in June 2022 to be managed by the Montreal-based agency Latitude 45 Arts. Inspired by Bartok's interest in peasant culture and also related to my own personal journey living and working on farms, the "RESILIENCE Release Tour" will include concerts in support of local sustainable agriculture farming communities and to raise awareness for migrant farm workers across Canada and abroad.
The "Resilience Campaign" is a kind of pre-sale of the album and release tour through The Parcival Project, a Canadian Charity founded in 2012 with the mission "to educate and enlighten public appreciation of the arts." All donations made to this campaign are tax deductible and will receive a complimentary digital and printed copy of the album as well as the possibility for complimentary tickets to the tour performances.
I wish to thank The Canada Council for the Arts for the receipt of a generous Concept to Realization grant in support of this project and The Musical Instrument Bank and George Heinl & Co Limited for the generous extended loan of a beautiful 1753 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin for this project. It would be a privilege to share this special journey with you over the coming year connecting global musical culture with local sustainable agriculture towards the cultivation of a more resilient society through the arts.
Wishing you all a happy, healthy, and hopeful 2022!
Dr. Emmanuel A.A. Vukovich
The Parcival Project, Founder & Artistic Director
Stony Brook University, DMA
New England Conservatory of Music, MMA
Schulich School of Music, McGill University, BMA
Organizer
The Parcival Project
Beneficiary