Jeremy Bellaviti is a Toronto based cellist, guitarist and composer. Born in Calgary in 1977 he grew up in Italy and later moved to Canada where he attended the Humber College Jazz Program, majoring in guitar. He continued to study privately with renowned musicians Rob Piltch (guitar), Shauna Rolston (cello) and Chan Ka Nin (composition). Jeremy’s recent projects include Submerge, a work for solo cello and choir commissioned by Toronto Jubilate Singers, String Quartet No. 1 featuring the hardanger fiddle funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy and Short Pieces for Voice and Solo Instrument funded by the Norwegian Society of Composers. He was the featured composer in The Music Gallery Presents: Emergents III. His latest work, In Search Of A Soul for solo marimba premiered in Victoria B.C (April 2018). Jeremy’s piece The Beginning of Infinity for solo violin composed for and played by Sarah Fraser Raff was included in The 13th Annual TSO New Creations Festival (March 2017) at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre and will also be performed at Koerner Hall, June 2018. Jeremy is one third of the Tiffany Hanus Jazz Trio.
If you have any interest in contemporary classical music, I hope you'll make this concert--I think it's going to be wonderful. JEREMY BELLAVITI is premiering his new piece for the traditional Norwegian HARDANGER (a fiddle with extra strings within the neck and body that resonate in sympathy with the melodic strings), and STRING QUARTET. While Jeremy's style has roots in 20th century European 'art' music (Schnittke, Webern, Ruggles, come to mind), it nods to folk music in the way he uses physical gesture to generate melodic motifs and lilting polyrhythms. Jeremy Bellaviti is a good friend and among the finest musicians I know--dedicated, disciplined, curious and creative--I'm looking forward to this concert!- Dr. Paul Swoger Ruston
The second half of this Alex Samaras-curated showcase saw violinist Sarah Fraser-Raff play this brand new piece, composed by Jeremy Bellaviti especially for the event. The music was inspired and shaped by the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics in the David Deutsch book from which the piece has taken its title. Over five movements, Fraser-Raff managed to explore a lot of terrain without the piece getting showy or concerned with merely technical aspects. A sole musical voice in the darkened and hushed space of the Music Gallery's santuary, this was quite entrancing."
-Mechanical Forest Sound