Repertoire
The VICO's repertoire is completely original and Canadian; more works are nearing completion. The ensemble is comprised of musicians from Vancouver and Victoria, all Canadians or landed immigrants from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, playing instruments from cultures spanning the globe.
Composer |
Title, Length, and non-Western Instruments |
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| Mark Armanini |
Sacred Flowers - 16' (1997, 2001)
Koto, Shakuhachi, Erhu, Pipa, Yangqin, Ruan
Composer's
Notes
audio excerpt - track # 20
Incense and Flowers - 20' (2002)
Tabla, Guzheng, Erhu, Yangqin
Composer's
Notes
audio excerpts - tracks # 07 & 08
Spirit House - 20' (2007)
Koni, Danbau, Bass Danbau, Zheng, Ud, Santur, Khane, Bamboo
flute, Guanzi, Shakuhachi, World Percussion
Composer's
Notes |
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| Coat Cooke |
Agua Azul - 9' (2007)
Danbau, Ud, Zheng, World Percussion
Composer's Notes |
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| Joseph "Pepe"
Danza |
The Hermit and the Princess - 12' (1986,
2001)
Shakuhachi, Koto, Erhu, Yangqin, Ruan, World Percussion
I Saw a Mountain - 18' (2002)
Bandoneon, Quena, Quenacho, Charango, Latin American and
Andean Percussion
Composer's
Notes
audio excerpts - tracks # 09 & 10
King of Wands - 8' (2007)
Santur, Ud
Composer's Notes |
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| Moshe Denburg |
Ani Ma-amin (I Believe) - 23' (2002)
Bansuri, Tabla, Darabuka, Udu, Riqq, Pipa, Ruan, Daruan,
Oud, Sitar, Zheng, Yangqin, Danbau, Erhu
Composer's
Notes
audio excerpts - tracks # 01 & 02
Rapprochements (Reconciliations) - 40' (2000)
Erhu, Yangqin, Zheng, Sitar, Tabla, Darabuka, Hurdy Gurdy,
Ney, Bansuri, Shakuhachi, Didjeridu, Tin Whistle, Oud, Pipa
Composer's
Notes
audio excerpts - tracks # 16 & 17
The King is Dancing - 15' (1988)
Tabla, "Indian" (tonic-dominant tuned) Guitars,
World Percussion, Tambura
Composer's
Notes
audio excerpt - track # 23
Can You Hear My Prayer - 16-20' (1989, 1988,
2002)
Erhu, Yangqin, Sitar, Tabla
audio excerpt - track # 03
Masala - 10' (1990)
2 Bansuris, Sitar, "Indian" Guitar, Tambura,
Tabla, Mridangam
audio excerpt - track # 13
El Ginat Egoz (Into the Walnut Garden) - 7' (2006)
Erhu, Zheng, 2 Uds
Composer's
Notes
Camel Hop at the Caravanserai - 9' (2007)
2 Zhengs, Ud, Santur, Djembe or Darabuka
Composer's
Notes
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| Niel Golden |
Kusumamaya (Consisting of Flowers) - 15'
(2003)
Tabla, Udu, Kartal, Manjira, Tambura
Composer's
Notes
audio excerpt - track # 12 |
|
| Grace Lee |
Dance of Sunrise - the Kayagum Concerto -
10' (2000)
Kayagum
audio
excerpt - track # 11 |
|
| John Oliver |
Eagle Flies to Mountain - 17' (2006)
Zheng, Erhu, Gaohu, Clarinet, Accordion, Chinese Percussion,
Pipa, Daruan
Composer's
Notes |
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| Michael
O'Neill |
Luffness - 15' (2000/2005)
Music by: Michael O'Neill, Boyd Seiichi Grealy,
Bonnie Soon, Stuart MacNeill, Jason Overy, Alcvin Ramos
3 Scottish Highland Bagpipes, 3 Japanese Taiko, Shakuhachi/Didjeridu
Composer's Notes |
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| Farshid
Samandari |
Sinfonia Unifica - 15' (2003)
Sitar, Tar, Tabla, Darabuka, World Percussion, Kamanche,
Shakuhachi
Composer's
Notes
audio excerpts - tracks # 21 &
22
Remover of Difficulties - 20' (2003)
Kamanche, Erhu, Tabla
Composer's Notes
audio excerpts - tracks # 18 & 19
Asheghaneh (Monologues Aglow) - 19' (2006)
Text: the quatrains of Bábá
–Táhìr (in the Farsi language)
Erhu, Ud, Santur, Tombak, Daff, Tabla
Composer's Notes |
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| Ron Samworth |
Strathcona (a short walk) - 7' (2007)
Danbau, Zheng, World Percussion
Composer's
Notes |
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| Neil Weisensel |
Presence - 15' (2002)
Ehru, Sitar,
Yangqin, Tabla
Composer's
Notes
audio excerpts - tracks #
14 & 15 |
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| Jin Zhang |
Circling - 19' (2002)
Sitar, Tabla, Erhu, Yangqin, Ruan
Composer's Notes
audio excerpts - tracks # 04 & 05
Green Wind - 7' (2007)
Danbau, Dulcimer, Zheng, Bawu
Composer's Notes |
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