SOLD OUT Cognitive Dissonance
wait list available
7:30PM | August 3, 2024
Bill Reid Gallery
639 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6C 2G3
FREE - register here.
Curated by Cree-Métis vocalist Jonathon Adams, Cognitive Dissonance is a co-presentation between Early Music Vancouver and musica intima.
Featuring the world premiere of "Cognitive Dissonance" by V. Jessica Sparvier-Wells (written for Adams and musica intima), the program will explore ideas of land-based creation and honour the perspective of those who have been stewarding these lands for millennia. musica intima will share works by Andrew Balfour, Sherryl Sewepagaham, and Ian Cusson; and flautist V. Jessica Sparvier-Wells will offer solo instrumental interludes.
As the culmination of our work with Storyteller-in-Residence Cease Wyss, Cognitive Dissonance will also feature a final new work by Wyss, combining musica intima's voices with plant biosonification and sounds from the natural world. Join us to explore the inter-connectedness of land and art.
V. Jessica Sparvier-Wells interweaves land, Indigenous identity, history, and language throughout her dance and music creation/performance practice. A classically trained flutist, she holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Calgary and an MFA in Contemporary Arts from Simon Fraser University. Her work fuses together traditional language and dance with her own contemporary experiences as an Indigenous woman and Two-Spirit person.
T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss is an Indigenous Matriarch of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Hawaiian people. Through her work as an ethnobotanist, artist, activist and community-based educator, they strive to share Indigenous customs, teachings, and futures and to connect Indigenous peoples. Wyss’s thirty-year career encompasses a vast array of practices, from weaving, making remedies, medicine walks to the realm of Indigenous Digital Futurisms. Ceases’ interactive, community-based work is insightful and informative of their contemporary conditions.
Jonathon Adams is a Cree-Métis two-spirit baritone from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, AB). They have appeared as a soloist under Masaaki Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe, Laurence Equilbey, and Alexander Weimann, among others, with the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, the Washington Bach Consort, Tafelmusik, Ricercar Consort, B’Rock, Vox Luminis, the Netherlands Bach Society, and il Gardellino. In 2021 they were named the first artist-in-residence at Early Music Vancouver.
They have lectured and led workshops at the Universities of Toronto, Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta (Augustana), Bard College, Festival Montréal Baroque, and the Juilliard School.
Jonathon was featured in Against the Grain Theatre’s 2020 film MESSIAH/COMPLEX, in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s MEA CULPA with Ballet Vlaanderen, and on V. Jessica Sparvier-Well’s most recent album ‘Prairie Dusk’. They attended the Victoria Conservatory of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, studying with Nancy Argenta, Emma Kirkby and Rosemary Joshua.
To view the program for Cognitive Dissonance, click here.
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