CONCERT | CATCH-POP STRING-STRONG

The Austrian Cultural Forum is pleased to present a concert by this wonderful young Vienna-based duo in their New York debut performance. Catch-Pop String-Strong & The First Ethnic Circus Orchestra are Serbian violist Jelena Popržan and Kosovo Albanian cellist Rina Kaçinari, and their ability to build new forms from miscellaneous components, using wit and virtuosity as mortar, is a remarkable skill which they have honed to perfection.

Author Julya Rabinowich has called their music “impish and light as a butterfly,” associating it with sequences from Andrej-Tarkowski’s films, or japanese Manga. Popržan and Kaçinari play Bach, traditional music from the Balkans or the Scottish highlands, pop songs, improvisations on Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, as well as their own compositions resounding with a multitude of different influences, and beautifully so. In their music, Catch-Pop String-Strong combine stories and interpretations from different places, eras and angles. Equipped with a cello, a viola, and their voices, they build bridges between different cultures, across centuries and musical traditions, and they do it all with a light-footedness and natural ease that is simply amazing.

Catch-Pop String-Strong will also be appearing at Deutsches Haus at NYU on April 26.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Vienna-based classically trained musicians Jelena Poprzan (Serbia) and Rina Kacinari (Kosovo) formed their duo Catch-Pop String-Strong in 2009. They have performed with a wide range of artists such as the tango quartet Mala Junta, the Slovenian band Terrafolk, the Ulrich Drechsler Cello Quartet, the singer Natasa Mirkovic De Ro, or the Trio Sormeh. (Photo by Maria Frodl)

Catch-Pop String-Strong’s vibrant and innovative eponymous debut album, released on the acclaimed Austrian label col legno, received national and international recognition.

>> More information: catchpopstringstrong.com

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