Multidisciplinary artist Violeta Vicci brings her spellbinding audio-visual live show to The Chapel, Nottingham.Blending ethereal soundscapes, looping violin, and immersive visuals, Vicci offers a transcendental performance experience. Don’t miss this unique fusion of music and art in one of Nottingham’s most atmospheric venues.
Rooted in natural soundscapes and highlighting the fragility of the environment, violinist and vocalist Violeta Vicci is a multi-faceted contemporary classical and electronic artist with Spanish and Swiss roots. Based in London, she draws inspiration from her deep connection to nature.
She has opened for The Orb’s extensive UK tour, Marconi Union, and System7, and collaborated with artists such as Thom Yorke, Sigur Rós, Clint Mansell, Elbow, Fontaines DC, Jonny Greenwood, and Bat For Lashes. Her music has received national and international radio play on BBC Radio3, BBC6 Music, RAI3, RNE, KEXP, Dublab, and Radio Hanover. Violeta has performed at prestigious venues like The Royal Albert Hall, Paris Philharmonie, and The Barbican, as well as festivals including British Summer Time, SGP, and Glastonbury.
Violeta began playing the violin at age four and gave her concert debut at fifteen. She moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music and has released three studio albums. Her debut, AUTOVIA, produced by Martin Glover ‘Youth’, bridges acoustic and electronic worlds. Her second album, Mirror Images, was hailed by Strad Magazine as “a remarkable concept album.” Her third, Cavaglia, musically translates a pristine Swiss valley, its lakes, and glaciers. Her latest release, Forest Music, co-created with film composer Ben Morales Frost, offers an imagined journey into the greenness of the forest, away from urban life.
Her upcoming live EP, Fallen Trees, is a melancholic and introspective performance from her “Live Music in Nature” series, featuring live-streamed concerts in stunning natural locations that blend strings, voice, and effect pedals to create a soundtrack to nature.
“Exceptional (…) This music carries a distinctive eclecticism, yet it seamlessly binds only those elements that fit together perfectly. Perhaps such connections come most naturally to someone who feels equally at home in Switzerland, the British Isles, and Spain; who speaks seven languages; and who, defying gender stereotypes, rides a motorcycle” Anxious Music Magazine
A multifaceted, contemporary violinist, vocalist and composer, Violeta Vicci collaborates with artists like The Orb, Thom Yorke, Elbow, Jonsi (Sigur Rós), Fontaines DC, Steeleye Span, Bat for Lashes and is a band member of psychedelic rock band TTRRUUCES. Her music has been played on BBC3, BBCRadio4, BBC6, KEXP, Resonance FM, Grenzwellen, Rai Italia and Radio1 Cz amongst others.
Violeta is fluent in seven languages, and feels at home in England, Switzerland and Catalunya. Since starting the violin at the age of four and giving her concert debut at the age of fifteen, she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music.
In 2020 she started “Live Music in Nature” a series of live-streamed concerts performed in beautiful natural locations to create a soundtrack to nature. Violeta has been nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award and has released three studio albums two date.
For her latest album ‘Cavaglia’, Violeta took to translating a pristine Swiss valley and its surrounding lakes and glaciers, into music, highlighting the fragility of the environment and the beauty and devastation created by climate change.
She is supporting The Orb on their upcoming UK tour. Her live show consists of layered strings, ethereal vocals, field recordings and electronic beats triggered live, accompanied by nature visuals.
