Yvette Holzwarth & Universes in THE MATRIX

Yvette Holzwarth — by the small-world principle — is within 6 degrees of most humanity. The matrix uses the principle behind this phenomenon to position the world's artists within discoverable reach of each other, and the planet.
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CURATION STATUS

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Who & Where

Name: Yvette Holzwarth
City/Place: Los Angeles, California
Country: United States

Life & Work

Bio: Yvette Cornelia Holzwarth is a violinist, vocalist, composer, and music educator based in Los Angeles. Expanding beyond her Western classical background, her diverse musical interests delve into Eastern European folk, Arabic, Americana, experimental sound-making, popular, jazz and improvised music.

As a violinist, Yvette performs and records with many independent artists — including Kamasi Washington, Van Dyke Parks, Gaby Moreno, Homayoun Shajarian, Carmen Cusack, Brandon Coleman, Rade Šerbedžija, Dent May, among many others. She regularly performs in Eastern Europe as part of a duo with guitarist Miroslav Tadić. Together, they blend Balkan folkloric music with improvisations from a wide range of styles. She has toured internationally (Egypt, Abu Dhabi, Oman) with Arabic orchestra MESTO. She is also a founding member of the performer-composer collective Desert Quill Quartet and of Bridge to Everywhere, a classical chamber group celebrating cultural diversity through interwoven musical traditions.

Residing in Los Angeles, Yvette records on numerous film scores as well as appears on camera in film, TV, and commercial work. Her solo viola work can be heard in "Patriot" Season 2 (Amazon Prime) and "Perpetual Grace" (Epix). Other credits include "Glee" (FOX), "The Good Place" (NBC), "Veep" (HBO), and "Arrested Development" (FOX).

From her home studio, Yvette delivers remote recording services professionally and expediently. She is set up with a sound-treated recording room, equipped with high-quality condenser mics, and works in Ableton Live and Pro Tools. She is experienced in delivering everything from solo lines to orchestral string mixes.

As a songwriter, Yvette releases original music under the moniker Yvette Cornelia. Her debut EP Open It Up (2013) was recently followed up by a full-length album What Lies Ahead (2018). Featuring her nine-piece ensemble, this latest album explores the cracks between chamber music, folk, experimental rock, and songwriting.

As a composer, she has had pieces performed by SF Civic Orchestra, Bay Area’s Awesöme Orchestra, CalArts Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and Desert Quill Quartet. She highly enjoys interdisciplinary work and designs sound for theatre productions (Antigonick and How Little I Know by Scatterstate Theater in San Jose, CA), works with choreographers (Heidi Duckler Dance Theater) and visual artists (Dean Liao, NOH/WAVE), and scores projects for filmmakers and animators. She is also a frequent collaborator with LA-based theater company Four Larks. In 2019, she performed in katabasis, their immersive site-specific exploration of the Greek underworld at the Getty Villa; and in 2020, she premiered in their "thrillingly realized" (LA Times) take on Shelley's Frankenstein at The Wallis Center.

From 2017-2018, Yvette curated an adventurous monthly chamber music series called Hear Sunday in collaboration with the arts nonprofit Clockshop in Frogtown, Los Angeles. In 2013, she lived and worked at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, a permaculture retreat center and small organic farm in West Sonoma County. She holds an M.F.A. in Performance and Composition from the California Institute of the Arts and a Bachelor's in American Literature from UCLA.

Contact Information

Email: holzwarthy@gmail.com
Contact by Webpage: http://www.yvetteholzwarth.com/contact

Media & Markets

▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://www.yvetteholzwarth.com/discography
▶ Twitter: holzwarthy
▶ Instagram: yvette.cornelia
▶ Website: http://www.yvetteholzwarth.com
▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmpGNpJZCAb6tchpKfctYw
▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5QFrWgwvrWrhyR8el7jmpY
▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/0n2c03o4UjNlijyHcpGhGR

Clips (more may be added)

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Nikšić Guitar Festival, Montenegro 2020 ©️ - Miroslav Tadić & Yvette Holzwarth - living room concert
By Yvette Holzwarth

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0:06:48
We are the Desert Quill Quartet!
By Yvette Holzwarth

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THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone.

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Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.

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