Elisabeth Smalt
viola
Violist Elisabeth Smalt is based in Amsterdam and works exclusively as a chamber musician, in styles varying from period instrument performance to extremely new music. Commitments at present are the Prisma Trio, the Belgian ensemble Oxalys, and Van Swieten Society, with fortepiano on period instruments, and new music with pianist Keiko Shichijo. She is artistic director of the Scordatura Ensemble, that specializes in experimental music in unusual tuning systems. As a guest she plays in Nieuw Amsterdams Peil and the Herz Ensemble.
Elisabeth has presented and premiered new works for viola, often written or arranged for her, by Phill Niblock, Frank Denyer, Kyle Gann, Harry Partch, Anne La Berge, Ig Henneman, Patrick Ozzard-Low, Catherine Lamb, James Tenney, Horatiu Radulescu, Lou Harrison and others. Elisabeth is the musical director of Amsterdam's KlankKleurFestival, a collaboration between chamber musicians and visual artists. She recorded over 50 albums with solo- and chamber music repertoire.