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Frances-Marie Uitti (born 1948, in Chicago, Illinois, US) is an American experimental cellist and classical composer known for pioneering extended performance techniques, including the introduction of a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument, capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multi-voiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous legato/articulated playing, that her previous…
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