Heaven Gallery

PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music series

Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello
Charlotte Hug, viola (Zurich/London)
Lou Mallozzi, electronics

CHARLOTTE HUG (born 1965) musician, composer, visual artist, lives in Zurich and London. She studied music and viola with Henrik Crafoord at the SMPV Berne and Paul Silverthorne in London, and received a training in "scenic design" at the University of Art and Design Zurich.

In addition to performing solo at international music festivals and in theatres and museums (at the Tage für Neue Musik in Zurich, the 10th LMC Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Feuer und Flamme Festival for Music in the Theatre at Kampnagel in Hamburg and the Festival internacional de creation en tiempo real at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid), Hug also collaborates with other artists.

Hug often seeks out unusual venues for her performances, places that lend surprising acoustic, visual or emotional accents to her playing. She has appeared in the icy caverns of the Rhône Glacier in the Upper Valais in Switzerland as well as in an acoustically insulated S&M torture chamber in Zurich's red light district. The labyrinthine subterranean passageways of the "House of Detention", a 250-year-old former dungeon in the London neighbourhood of Farringdon, have also played host to her productions.

Her work has been distinguished in a number of ways, with awards and grants, including a stipend from the Aargauer Kuratorium to study in London. The Swiss cultural funding agency Pro Helvetia supported the research necessary for her spatio-musical project with a composition prize; the work that emerged from this research, Sonorbit, was subsequently performed while she was artist in residence at the Kunstlabor forum:claque in Baden. 2004/05 she is "artist in residence" at the "Cité internationale des arts" Paris.

Charlotte Hug is a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra. She collaborates with other composers as well as with the Swiss Centre for Computer Musik and improvises, both freely and conceptually, with such performers as John Butcher, John Edwards, Phil Minton, Maggie Nicols, Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp and Phil Wachsmann. Her domain encompasses the most diverse fields, including composition, improvisation, electro-acoustics, performance, music for film and musical theatre aswell as in visual art and sound installations.

http://www.myspace.com/fredlonbergholm
http://www.loumallozzi.com/
http://www.charlottehug.ch

Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
$5 suggested donation