https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/home daily 1.0 2013-01-30 https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/gallery daily 0.75 2023-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/1677876970946-HO8F6RUIYYIAPTNMPA3N/UltraViolet3CreditNicoArnaez.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/1677876976113-Q8ECS0B9BDAKPK0ISHEW/UltraViolet4CreditNicoArnaez.jpeg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/1677876991898-VSJT7MEQPB0D52KWBMRS/UltraViolet2CreditEmilieLeBel.JPG Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/1677880908408-QYJWT63DIIR77AYXS7K2/DSC02957.JPG Gallery https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/bio daily 0.75 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/f8ed7011-a0cf-4b79-989c-b441fc85686d/UltraViolet4CreditNicoArnaez.jpeg Bio Chenoa Anderson - flutes Allison Balcetis - saxophones Roger Admiral - piano Mark Segger - percussion Comprising pianist Roger Admiral, percussionist Mark Segger, flutist Chenoa Anderson, and saxophonist Allison Balcetis, UltraViolet’s musicians are forward-thinking, virtuosic, dedicated artists. UltraViolet is named in honour of composer Dr. Violet Archer, who encouraged her students to create their own opportunities for their music to be performed. Her impact was broad and deep in Alberta and throughout Canada. In 2013, UltraViolet was created as an ensemble for performing works curated at New Music Edmonton’s yearly festival, Now Hear This. UltraViolet’s members bring an immense wealth of experience to performing new music, individually and collaboratively. UV’s individual members have premiered hundreds of solo and chamber works, and been active in commissioning and performing new Canadian works. The ensemble has performed over forty new pieces since 2014. Canadian League of Composers Gender Parity Pledge: UltraViolet pledges to maintain gender parity in our programming and commissioning. We welcome the opportunity to add our voice to a growing international movement that acknowledges artistic choices must be representative of the gender diversity within the community of creators. We invite our audiences and the Canadian composition community to hold us accountable and encourage us in reaching our goal.. https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/contact daily 0.75 2017-05-12 https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/chenoa-anderson daily 0.75 2023-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/1539143583977-J0T64ZHT9XKRMHZWJ02Q/Ultravoilet-2018-4.jpg Chenoa Anderson - Chenoa Anderson Flutist Chenoa Anderson is a settler artist living and practicing in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan/Edmonton. She has commissioned and premiered dozens of solo and ensemble pieces, and is an active improviser who has worked with musicians, dancers, and spoken word artists. Current projects include UltraViolet - a mixed quartet specializing in new repertoire; Garden – multidisciplinary works set in her permaculture garden; Mixtur with composer Ian Crutchley, performing experimental repertoire for flute(s) and found objects/instruments/electronics; and damn magpies, a free improvisation sextet. She holds performance degrees from the University of Toronto (B.Mus.) and the University of British Columbia (M.Mus.). Chenoa Anderson’s first solo recording, Big Flutes: Canadian Music for Alto and Bass Flutes was nominated for a 2006 Western Canadian Music Award. Krishna’s Flute (flute and interactive electronics) was released in December 2013. Current releases include Bellow, a collaboration between spoken word artist Dwennimmen (Shima Robinson) and damn magpies (2021, Bandcamp), and field studies – chamber music of Emilie Cecilia LeBel (2023, Redshift Records), featuring UltraViolet. https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/new-page daily 0.75 2025-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/ef866a39-3280-4a39-9665-cc07f7310a89/DSC_2599.jpg Allison Balcetis - Allison Balcetis Allison Balcetis is a saxophonist living in Edmonton, Alberta in Treaty 6 Territory. As a musician she is drawn to sounds that grab the audience with visceral force or nudge them to lean in deeper, catching ethereal textures. In a world where isolation and loneliness are an epidemic, Allison prefers playing with others, performing both composed and improvised music. Fulfilled by creative partnerships, she plays in several groups including echoradia, where she uses effects pedals on saxophone while improvising with Kelly Ruth on amplified spinning wheel; and Ultraviolet, a mixed instrument quartet focused exclusively on commissioning Canadian composers. For over 10 years Ultraviolet remains Edmonton’s only chamber ensemble to do so. Allison also performs in damn magpies an improvising sextet, avant-jazz combo Blackout Over Rio, indie folk rock band Next Stop, Otago!, and the Edmonton Saxophone Quartet. Collaborating with living composers is a cornerstone of Allison’s work. Through these partnerships she has premiered over one hundred works that have spoken poignant truths of our shared contemporary life. Highlights include works by Anthony Tan, Heather Hindman, Andriy Talpash, Anna Pidgorna, Jane Berry, and Marcos Balter. Having taught in the Department of Music at the University of Alberta since 2011 Allison’s great passion is to help students: express themselves maturely on their instrument; interpret others’ compositions with critical thought; and work together effectively and artistically. https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2023-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/8842c987-d287-46a2-9f95-f732a415cef8/image_6483441.JPG Roger Admiral - Roger Admiral Roger Admiral performs music from the 17th to the 21st century, and teaches piano at the University of Alberta Augustana Campus. Performances include György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the piano works of Iannis Xenakis for Vancouver New Music, and collaborations on recitals for Curto-Circuito de Música Contemporânea Brazil with Allison Balcetis, Festival of Contemporary Polish Music (Wrocław), Bew Music Concerts (Toronto), Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series, Carnegie / Weill Hall, and Donaueschinger Musiktage. https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/tour daily 0.75 2025-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/bf8d3b65-2efe-4a20-ae85-e61946289db2/InfraRed-Banner+%281%29.png Concerts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/music-1 daily 0.75 2025-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/085746cc-87e7-4266-9b46-9f21908c4292/field-studies_HQ_Front-Cover.jpg Music - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/mark-segger daily 0.75 2022-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a352717bffc01e665b78f/8c485ca1-5968-4d70-a31f-91ba43a2fb69/Mark+Segger+Promo+Photo.jpg Mark Segger - mark segger The ensemble’s newest member, percussionist Mark Segger, has long been performing with UltraViolet musicians in the Violet Collective, Damn Magpies, and a variety of projects involving contemporary composition and / or improvisation. Mark makes frequent appearances with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, leads the free improvisation ensemble (XiME) at the University of Alberta, and has released two critically acclaimed recordings of his compositions with the Toronto-based Mark Segger Sextet, The Beginning (2011), and Lift off (2020). As an improviser, he has performed with Dave Burrell, Lina Allemano, Nate Wooley, Steve Swell, and many others across North America and Europe. https://www.ultravioletensemble.com/read-me-encore daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/507c1fdb84ae362b5e7be351/1377710645188-W6F7VW5TN6XZ26N626WB/Darren+Bridgett+%2820130828%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/507c1fdb84ae362b5e7be351/1377710441515-L3YD83X83ELBMUJHKA5F/The+Collective+Quarterly+%2820130828%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/507c1fdb84ae362b5e7be351/1377787389525-6YIGWYZ7Y1R2VXYGXYWO/Olasky+%26+Sinsteden+%2820130829%29.jpg Read Me