Concetta Abbate
Concetta Abbate Solo Violin/Voice
Center for New Music
55 Taylor St
San Francisco, CA 94102
Apr 26, 2024
7:30 PM PDT
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Violinist and Composer Concetta Abbate presents a program of music for solo violin and voice to showcase her new music and arts organization Sound & Memory. After completing her Death Doula certification in 2021 Concetta saw a need to incorporate music into contemporary rituals for both grief and death, as tradition evolves over time. She will present a program of original compositions and arrangements which highlight the healing nature of music around loss, and filling the void or empty space with warmth and regeneration. Sound & Memory provides music memorial offerings at sliding scale rates and accepts tax deductible donations through its fiscal sponsor the Groupmuse Foundation.
Concetta Abbate centers death, life, and their interplay in her work as a violinist, vocalist, and composer. Her work invites contemplation, reverie, and play into spaces often avoided: grief, loss, decay, and taboo. Abbate uses beauty as an entry point to make complex sonic forms accessible to a diverse audience. Her music elegantly crosses genres, drawing on her classical training and decades of study in jazz, folk, and popular forms. Using her violin as an extension of her voice, she weaves enchanting story-songs that ask profound, challenging questions.
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Concetta Abbate Biography
Concetta Abbate is a classically trained violinist turned improviser and composer. Grammy.com describes her original performances as a mix of “Violin and delicate vocals that float between the worlds of Modern Classical, Neo-Folk, and poignant and poetic verse”
She has performed with ensembles in NY including PARK Quartet, Femmelody Chamber Music Collective and the Creative Music Orchestra. Her studio albums of her original music span genres of New Classical, Jazz, Experimental and Folk.'
Her music for Dance and Film scores have been performed at Lincoln Center, the Fashion Film Festival of Milan as well as Theatre for the New City. Notable music composition residencies include TAKT Gallery in Berlin (2016 and 2018) as well as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva Island, Florida (2019). She has scored music for choreographers Wendy Osserman (WODance), Sheena Annalise (Arch Contemporary Ballet) and for film maker Vera Comploj.
She leads a chamber ensemble called CACEnsemble (Concetta Abbate Chamber Ensemble) which performs her original music. They have performed at the New Music and New Ideas Festival, the Ambient Chaos series, the Park Church Co-op Summer Festival, PS 109 El Barrio's Artspace and the Dimenna Center for Classical Music.
In 2014 she founded a Music Ed program called Teacup Music which provides sliding-scale music lessons to students in Brooklyn. Her teaching work has received funding from Brooklyn Arts Council, The Roothbert Fund and the Charles Mayer Foundation.
Concetta is a voting member of the Grammys Recording Academy. She holds degrees in Music, Education and Cultural Studies from Smith College (BA) as well as Columbia University (MA).
Read MoreShe has performed with ensembles in NY including PARK Quartet, Femmelody Chamber Music Collective and the Creative Music Orchestra. Her studio albums of her original music span genres of New Classical, Jazz, Experimental and Folk.'
Her music for Dance and Film scores have been performed at Lincoln Center, the Fashion Film Festival of Milan as well as Theatre for the New City. Notable music composition residencies include TAKT Gallery in Berlin (2016 and 2018) as well as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva Island, Florida (2019). She has scored music for choreographers Wendy Osserman (WODance), Sheena Annalise (Arch Contemporary Ballet) and for film maker Vera Comploj.
She leads a chamber ensemble called CACEnsemble (Concetta Abbate Chamber Ensemble) which performs her original music. They have performed at the New Music and New Ideas Festival, the Ambient Chaos series, the Park Church Co-op Summer Festival, PS 109 El Barrio's Artspace and the Dimenna Center for Classical Music.
In 2014 she founded a Music Ed program called Teacup Music which provides sliding-scale music lessons to students in Brooklyn. Her teaching work has received funding from Brooklyn Arts Council, The Roothbert Fund and the Charles Mayer Foundation.
Concetta is a voting member of the Grammys Recording Academy. She holds degrees in Music, Education and Cultural Studies from Smith College (BA) as well as Columbia University (MA).
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