Projects

Marika’s Revolving Doors

With Marika’s Revolving Doors, Marika takes the mic in one hand and her cello in another and
sings songs – her own and those of her heroes and friends. Her band is made up of a rotating cast
of New York’s finest whose varied styles and inclinations make each show unique. The
musicians who have come thru the doors include; Kyle Sanna, Andy Borger, Mathias Künzli,
Charlie Burnham, Tony Mason, Todd Sickafoose, Fred Cash and Derek Nievergelt.

Afterlife Music Radio

In late 2008 Marika asked some of her favorite performers/composers to each write a solo piece
for cello for her to record and perform. This collection of pieces inhabits a space at the
intersection of the two roads Marika has found herself travelling – the early road of her classical
training as well as the road she discovered in San Francisco, using the cello in songs,
contemporary jazz, pop, experimental, and improvisation. The pieces are very personal and the
process of realizing them has been a collaborative one. They blur the line between composition
and improvisation. Because they were written for the cello, because they were all written for
Marika by people who know her well, and because these are her interpretations, the pieces form
a set, unified by a thread of restlessness and yearning and rendered with passion and a deep
affection for all the people who have contributed to the commissions.

The composers are:

Charles Burnham
Abraham Burton
Trevor Dunn
Shahzad Ismaily
Eyvind Kang
Carla Kihlstedt
Dina Maccabee
Raz Mesinai
Jenny Scheinman
Todd Sickafoose
Nasheet Waits

CHARLIE BURNHAM’S HIDDEN CITY

A guitar/bass/cello/violin quartet fronted and with vocals by the violinist Charlie Burnham.
Hidden City puts soulful, gospel-inflected vocals over sublime acoustic arrangements of
standards and originals from Mr. Burnham.