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Tetuzi Akiyama, Jeffery Allport and Amy Horvey
510 Fort Street
July 3rd
8pm

Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar)
Fresh from having his album “Route 13 to the Gates of Hell: Live in Tokyo” named one of the top 50 albums of 2005 by Wire Magazine, Tetuzi Akiyama uses his performances to think beyond the mere conventions of music in an attempt to come to terms with sound. Combining a unique blend of sultry country blues and exploratory free improvisation, Akiyama’s experimental guitar playing crosses genres and techniques, using acoustic and electric guitar, a resonator guitar combined with a Samurai sword, and turntable without records. This performance is part of his U.S./Canada Tour, funded by the Japan Foundation.

Jeffrey Allport (percussion)
The improvisations of Vancouver-based percussionist Jeffrey Allport eschew the grand gesture in favour of inhabiting a minute sound-world of carefully extracted tones and scrapes, as well as silence itself. Through a variety of preparations and extended techniques, Allport uses his diverse palette to paint improvised solo sound-pictures, as well as to colour and shade the improvisatory efforts of his collaborators. Allport has recorded and collaborated with a wide variety of artists and improvisers, and has toured in Canada, the United States, Japan and Western Europe

Amy Horvey (trumpet)
Amy Horvey returns to Victoria (where she received her BMus.) having established herself as a leading international interpreter of cutting-edge Classical music. Horvey’s intimate style shuns the machismo of the traditional trumpet to investigate the instrument’s sonic architecture. Amy is a trumpeter with the Thunder Bay Symphony, teaches at Lakehead University, and is currently touring Canada with a program of new music for trumpet.