Timothy Vajda: Viola da gamba in a contemporary context.

Timothy Vajda (pronounced VI-da) is a composer and instrumentalist whose principal instrument is the viola da gamba. He also plays the medieval fiddle, electric and acoustic guitar, and keyboard.

As a gambist, he participated in numerous early music performances in the St. Louis area with members of the St.Louis Symphony and more recently as a member of the Ganzfeld Quartet.

Tim has studied early music performance with Nicholas McGegan and Bruce Dickey and was also the guitarist for Catnip College, a band that played blues and rock and specialized in improvisations that ranged from straight-forward blues to atonal, polyrhythmic mayhem.

As a composer, Vajda enjoys exploring the textural possibilities of the instruments available to him, and combining various, sometimes disparate, compositional methods. He received his Master's Degree in Music Theory/Composition from Webster University in St. Louis, MO.

Tracks from "Bootstrap Physics" have received frequent airplay on the syndicated radio show "Echoes".

You can find out more about Tim on his website.

  Timothy Vajda

[Bootstrap Physics by Timothy Vajda]

Bootstrap Physics
Timothy Vajda lives in Missouri, USA.

Tagged as: New Age, Other, Viola da Gamba.

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