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Counterstasis – Refracted Voices CD Release

by bgilliam.composer@gmail.com on September 18, 2019October 18, 2022

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    About Bill

    Bill is a Toronto based composer / pianist who creates and improvises new music compositions blending contemporary harmony and jazz idioms with his unique style of piano and prepared piano playing.

    Originally from London UK, he studied jazz and film composition at Berklee College of Music. His diverse compositions, performances and recordings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council, have been showcased at Canadian venues as well as in London, UK and the USA.

    He is active in Toronto as a composer, improvisor and presenter of innovative performances combining composed and improvised music, spoken word and visuals.

    Upcoming Concerts

    Date
    June 15, 2025 Jun 15
    Art of Improv - June 2025 Edition
    Annette Studios, 566 Annette St, Toronto, M6S 2C2
    Note

    Art of Improv - June 2025 Edition, is excited to present:
    - Germaine Liu & Mark Zurawinski
    - future proof: Bea Labikova & Raphael Roter

    Sunday June 15th, 8pm
    Annette Studios
    566 Annette St, Toronto,
    $20 / PWYC

    Doors open 7:30pm

    Set 1
    future proof - Bea Labikova (woodwinds + electronics) and Raphael Roter (percussion + electronics).

    Set 2
    Part 1) Germaine Liu (sound artist, percussionist, improvisor, and explorer of found objects) and Mark Zurawinski (percussion) will play a few percussion pieces and also work with prompts / scenarios to inspire music-making.

    Part 2) Germaine and Mark will improvise music with Bill Gilliam (piano), Eugene Martynec (electroacoustics) and Bill McBirnie (flute).

    Germaine Liu (germaine.she.her.hers) and Mark Zurawinski (he/him) are long-term loving partners, life and art collaborators and makers. Together, and with the support of their friends and arts organizers, they have been fortunate to dream and create many joyous projects like And With (supported by The Bentway) - a sound walk inviting participants to experience sounds and textures of The Bentway and We Made This With Love (supported by Music Gallery), a candy-inspired two-part sharing (1. sonic and visual exploratory film 2. sound/movement performance, with Fahmid Nibesh and Raphael Roter, where performers become “NERDS/Nerds” a symbiosis of candy+state-of-being.)

    Germaine and Mark, along with their friend Joe Sorbara, are co-founders of Imaginary Percussion Ensemble where they play works like Water Music (sonic/physical/touch exploration with water + objects), CeramiX (sonic/physical/touch exploration with ceramic objects made by Chiho Tokita) and most recently Suite May Sixteen (a collection of pieces for idiophones, drums, cymbals, objects and images). Germaine and Mark also love to garden and cook food. They are grateful to share art, life, food, nourishment, joys and grief with communities that they are fortunate to be in relationship with.

    future proof is the improv-avant-groove amalgam of Bea Labikova (woodwinds + electronics) and Raphael Roter (percussion + electronics). In the age of fast fashion, faster obsolescence and fastest disembodiment, all that remains for ‘future proof’ is human creation and connection in the present tense. Bea and Raphael exist here, grazing on feelings, circumstances, happenstances and humanstances to make immersively large and driving music of the moment.

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