What the Body Remembers: solo violin with electronics at Sidle House

What the Body Remembers: solo violin and electronics
Katherine Liccardo, violin
Sunday June 7th at 2:30pm
Sidle House Gallery - 20 Bartol Island Road in Freeport
Suggested donation: $25 at the door
Music by: Dai Wei, Jeffrey Fong, Sungji Hong, Kenji Bunch, Che Buford, and Gian Torrano Jacobs
What the Body Remembers is a haunting exploration of pain and healing through the medium of solo violin and electronics. Drawing from the work of contemporary composers, the program moves through the spiritual, psychological, and embodied aspects of pain with unsparing authenticity and blessed relief. Violinist Katherine Liccardo (Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center) transforms the body of the violin into a percussive heart beat and the strings into a rasping breath. She unleashes raw walls of sound, hypnotic recursive loops, and ecstatic melodic lines in a bravura performance that pushes the boundaries of the violin. Based on Liccardo's own journey of injury and recovery, this deeply personal hour of music opens the doors of private suffering into a shared, communal experience of recognition and catharsis.
NYC born and trained Katherine Liccardo began playing violin at the age of 3 and has devoted her life to her instrument. Based in Maine since 2020, Liccardo is the associate director of Vigorous Tenderness, an immersive outdoor concert series that amplifies marginalized voices in classical music and democratizes new/experimental music. Katherine also works with Shelter Music Maine, a fledgling organization that brings music to unsheltered communities across the state of Maine, and is a dedicated pedagogue with a full studio of students.
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This concert in the barn is set within the 2026 season opening exhibition, Anne Hebebrand: A World That Is. The exhibition presents work selected from Anne Heberand's cold-wax and oil paintings over the past seven years. She describes her prolific practice as, "rooted in an intuitive process driven by a lifelong love of abstraction. These paintings serve as maps of memory, where colors and shapes evolve organically to create their own universe. Using oil and cold wax, I build, scrape, and rework the surface— layering and excavating until the moment arrives when the piece reveals its own history and depth."
Anne Hebebrand creates luminous paintings rich with color and texture revealing delicate transitions and passages. An ongoing exploration of cold wax and oil techniques lead to a tactile surface created not only by adding layers, but also by excavating and unearthing earlier layers of paint.