Biography
Violeta Vicci commands an expansive instrumental range and a broad network of partnerships. Although she launched her career on violin, her recordings now spotlight both her voice and viola work. Even with rigorous classical schooling, she thrives as an improviser and composer whose signature style merges electronic and ambient textures. Autovia, her opening solo statement, appeared in 2019. Mirror Images, issued two years later, centered on violin repertoire that ranged from Bach to newly composed material.
Violeta Barreña Witschi began violin lessons at age four and gradually incorporated viola, voice, keyboards, and electronics into her palette. Training took place at the Royal Academy of Music under Howard Davis and Tomotada Soh, then continued at the Royal College of Music with Itzhak Rashkovsky. As a soloist she has appeared with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, the London Contemporary Orchestra, and other professional groups at The Royal Albert Hall and The Barbican.
In 2012 she formed Duo Diez with Dimitris Dekavallas, a violin-and-classical-guitar ensemble devoted to Spanish and Latin-American repertoire; the pair issued From Granada to Buenos Aires on Demerara Records in 2015. While her foundation remains classical, she has also collaborated in alternative contexts, performing live with Elbow and for Jónsi & Alex, and she is featured on Thom Yorke’s Anima (2019) and Groove Armada’s Edge of the Horizon (2020), among other projects.
Autovia, produced by Martin Glover (aka Youth from Killing Joke), fused synthetic and acoustic elements into ambient electronic soundscapes and was released by Painted Word Music in 2019. Her second album, Mirror Images (Gramola, 2021), juxtaposed classical violin and viola works with her own improvisations.
Violeta Barreña Witschi began violin lessons at age four and gradually incorporated viola, voice, keyboards, and electronics into her palette. Training took place at the Royal Academy of Music under Howard Davis and Tomotada Soh, then continued at the Royal College of Music with Itzhak Rashkovsky. As a soloist she has appeared with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, the London Contemporary Orchestra, and other professional groups at The Royal Albert Hall and The Barbican.
In 2012 she formed Duo Diez with Dimitris Dekavallas, a violin-and-classical-guitar ensemble devoted to Spanish and Latin-American repertoire; the pair issued From Granada to Buenos Aires on Demerara Records in 2015. While her foundation remains classical, she has also collaborated in alternative contexts, performing live with Elbow and for Jónsi & Alex, and she is featured on Thom Yorke’s Anima (2019) and Groove Armada’s Edge of the Horizon (2020), among other projects.
Autovia, produced by Martin Glover (aka Youth from Killing Joke), fused synthetic and acoustic elements into ambient electronic soundscapes and was released by Painted Word Music in 2019. Her second album, Mirror Images (Gramola, 2021), juxtaposed classical violin and viola works with her own improvisations.
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