Impetus is: Innovative vocalist and performance artist – Maria Tegzes
Powerhouse pianist – Geoffrey Burleson
Guitarist extraordinaire – David Knife Fabris
Maria Tegzes is a singing actress with a dark and earthy sensuality whose performances have received critical acclaim the world over. Geoffrey Burleson has been heralded as a remarkable pianist and a first-class instrumental presence , as well as an outright thrilling artist. David Knife Fabris, noted for his collaborations with jazz pianist legend, Ran Blake, is highly praised for his sensitive, virtuosic, and iconoclastic interpretations. Combining jazz, rock, blues, classical, and world music, these three artists adamantly, skillfully, and passionately smash through the barriers between musical styles and categories. They see all styles as leaping-off points to musical and creative flights of fancy.
Like Martha Graham’s theory of “Blood Memory,” there are forces and musics that speak to us, without concern for sense or cause – time or place. Something triggers an impulse. This something is the impetus. It resonates within us, and we must act. The impetus may deliver us to new terrain – alien and unnerving. Conversely, we may find a world of uncanny familiarity, whether of our time or another. (Therefore, we are Impetus, not because we, ourselves, enact such a powerful force. But because we respond to and celebrate it.
