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DR. BATYA MACADAM-SOMER

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DR. BATYA MACADAM-SOMER

Skip to content
 * About
 * Projects
   
   * Singing and Playing
   * Kafka Fragments
   * Baby Bushka
   * Quartet Nouveau
   * Audio
   * Writing
 * Violin/Viola Studio
   
   * Testimonials
 * Contact


ABOUT

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ABOUT

I’m a violinist and violist based in San Diego, California. I play a variety of
genres and have performed throughout the USA, Mexico, The United Kingdom and
Europe. I also enjoy singing and have been incorporating my voice into projects
more recently. My work centers around collaboration and experimentation. I am
interested in creating pieces that provide some kind of dialogue between
personal and collective perspectives.

In San Diego I perform with Quartet Nouveau, a string quartet that presents
classical chamber music throughout Southern California. Quartet Nouveau is a
non-profit organization and offers outreach concerts and chamber music
coachings. Many of our concerts are free. I am also a member of Baby Bushka, an
eight-piece all-female band celebrating the music of Kate Bush. Since our
inception in 2017, Baby Bushka has quickly become an international sensation.
We’ve played sold out shows up and down the West Coast and are headed overseas
for our second UK/Ireland tour in 2022.

In 2014, I graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a
doctoral degree in violin performance, focusing on avant garde repertoire and
experimental practices. Being a part of the UCSD musical community allowed me to
collaborate with awesome composers and performers such as Nicholas Deyoe, Leslie
Leytham, Meghann Welsh, Yvette Janine Jackson, Bonnie Lander, Jonathan Piper,
Clinton Ross Davis, Michiko Ogawa, Stephanie Aston, Katalin Lukács, Sam
Dunscombe, Jessica Aszodi, Judith Hamann, Rachel Beetz,  Todd Moellenberg, Clint
McCallum, Carolyn Chen, Rick Snow, and Bob Pierzak, to name a few. I performed a
number of premieres and studied with the late Hungarian violinist János Négyesy.
Currently, I play often for The Hutchins Consort, Project [BLANK], San Diego New
Music  and Art of Élan. I’ve also had the opportunity to work with Los Angeles
based ensembles WasteLAnd and wild Up, NYC ensembles ICE and Bang on a Can
All-Stars, and Ensemble Pamplemousse.

A little about my past: I grew up in a musical household, the third of four
children. We all studied a string instrument (violin or cello) as well as piano
and performed often together in our hometown of Houston, Texas. Along with being
immersed in classical music from a young age, I became obsessed with the local
oldies radio station- The Mamas and the Papas, The Supremes, The Shirelles, The
Beach Boys, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Doo Wop, etc. My interest in
popular music continues to influence the work I do. Some current favorites are
The Feelies, Viv Albertine, Barrington Levy, Kate Bush, Daniel Johnston, Townes
Van Zandt, Aldous Harding, Joni Mitchell, The B52s, The Pet Shop Boys, Yoko Ono
and Robyn Hitchcock.

In Houston, my primary teachers were Judy Offman of the Suzuki School of Houston
and Fredell Lack. I began my college studies at the Moores School of Music,
University of Houston and continued on to earn a bachelor’s degree from the
Manhattan School of Music as a student of Sylvia Rosenberg. I’ve performed at
the Ojai Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Lucerne Festival Academy, Aspen
Music Festival, and Bach Festival of Leipzig. Recently, I’ve enjoyed being a
part of the Baroque on Beaver Island Festival and Festival Vértice in Mexico
City.

I am very lucky to play on a 2002 violin made by Houston based luthier Alkis S.
Rappas. The instrument, inspired by the 1721 “Lady Blunt” Stradivari violin, was
awarded a Silver Medal for Violin Tone by the Violin Society of America (VSA) at
the 15th International Competition and Exhibition, Fort Mitchell, Kentucky,
November 11-17, 2002.

Some current projects include a collaboration with visual artist and
storyteller Jenna Ann McGillis about the Tijuana Estuary, as well as ongoing
exploration and performances of György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments with soprano
Bonnie Lander. I have also been performing movements of Some Dragons, a song
cycle for singing violinist by Carolyn Chen, and look forward to premiering the
piece in its entirety in 2022.






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