Bio
Daquqi was formed in early 2007 by Amadis and Myfanwy. They recorded their first
EP 'Kite Scapes' in July 2007 with double bass player Paul Binns. 'Kit Scapes' was launched at the Darebin Music Festival in September 2007. In 2010 Shannon Birchall
joined Daquqi on double bass to record their second full-length
album of all original material, 'The Lift Equation' with Peter Knight on trumpet and sound engineer Myles Mumford. The album was launched at Guildford Lane Gallery in the Melbourne CBD on July 24th 2010.
Daquqi have performed at Darebin Music Feast 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. Brisbane Fringe Festival 2008. Horsham Art Is Festival 2007. Open Studio, Northcote. The Boite, Fitzroy. Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne CBD. Soulfood, State Library Melbourne. Acoustica, City Library, Melbourne CBD. Northcote Uniting Church. Loop Bar, Melbourne CBD. Candelo Village Festival, NSW 2011.
Daquqi (pronounced da-koo-ki) is a character from a Rumi poem who finds the extraordinary in the ordinary. The group appear regularly at venues and festivals in Melbourne and nationally wherever a good piano can be found.
Daquqi have performed at Darebin Music Feast 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. Brisbane Fringe Festival 2008. Horsham Art Is Festival 2007. Open Studio, Northcote. The Boite, Fitzroy. Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne CBD. Soulfood, State Library Melbourne. Acoustica, City Library, Melbourne CBD. Northcote Uniting Church. Loop Bar, Melbourne CBD. Candelo Village Festival, NSW 2011.
Daquqi (pronounced da-koo-ki) is a character from a Rumi poem who finds the extraordinary in the ordinary. The group appear regularly at venues and festivals in Melbourne and nationally wherever a good piano can be found.
Amadis Lacheta - piano
Born into a talented
musical family of Hungarian and Ukrainian descent, Amadis took up piano studies
at an early age, and was invited to study composition and piano with Larry Sitsky at the
Canberra School of Music. She finished her formal music studies with Graeme
Koehne at Adelaide University and enjoyed philosophical composition lessons
with Ross Edwards in Sydney. She has composed for solo piano, voice, chamber
groups, and choir, and enjoys writing original music for Daquqi and other
ensembles. True to her eclectic nature, she gathers inspiration from a broad spectrum of musicians including Debussy, Prokofiev, John Adams, Tord Gustavsen, Björk, Jon Hassell and Susumo Yokota. When not immersed in music, her love of the natural world begs involvement in community gardens, urban agriculture, writing for sustainability publications, fostering green business and enjoying the wonders of a wild urban farm in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. She is enjoying her first batch of homegrown honey.
Myfanwy Alderson - viola/voice
Myfanwy began playing classical violin at age 4 and took up viola in 1998. Her viola/violin studies and interests have included contemporary
composition & improvisation, Baroque, Classical Indian, Celtic,
Gypsy,
Klezma and Turkish music. Theatre: actor/musician/foley artist for Chamber Made Opera ‘Phobia’ Holland 2006, Australia 2007; Playback
Theatre musician, Blue Mountains 1998-2000; composer, script-writer and
narrator for shadow puppet production The Baron In The Trees 2007-2009. Dance productions: viola for Deaf Can Dance 2008, Beyond Butoh 2007
& 2008, Comma 2006, Mayura 2005; instigated and facilitated 'Landance' - monthly music/dance journeys in natural and urban environments, 2004-2006. Guest viola: Clare Bowditch ARIA award winning album 'What Was Left' 2005, Carl Panuzzo '5 Lines' 2006. Performed with: Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Miriam Lieberman, Lothlorien. In 2011 Myfanwy is undertaking a Solo Residency at
Victoria University to delve further into and extend her own musical interests and
creative endeavours.
Shannon Birchall - double bass
Shannon picked up bass at
age 15 after playing violin for eight years. Training as an orchestral musician
while playing in jazz and studying at the Victorian College of the Arts from 92
– 94, he began working with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Later he took
time off to tour Europe, North America and Russia with traditional-jazz
influenced punk-band 'The Hoodangers' and to Scandinavia with veteran Melbourne
band 'The Band Who Knew Too Much'. He has sometimes sizzled with the
Austro-Cuban septet 'Sally Ford and the Pachuco Playboys', occasionally cooked
mariachi-style violin in a tex-mex band 'Texicali Rose', and readily boiled
bass in 'The John Butler Trio' from 2003-2009. Theatre appearances include the
Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2002 production of “True West” and 'Urinetown' in 2004, as well as Chamber Made Opera's production of
Phobia in 2006, and The Spaghetti Western Orchestra's European and Asian tours
of 2009-10. Shannon joined Daquqi in February 2010. When not playing bass or on tour around the globe Shannon is learning to fly airplanes and works on building sites with Myf's Uncle Pete.
