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    Shira Kammen is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who received her degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley. She has performed and recorded extensively with various early music ensembles. Kammen currently lives in El Cerrito, California and continues to record and perform on a variety of medieval instruments including vielle, fiddle, viola da gamba, and harp.

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    Shira Kammen is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who received her degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley. She has performed and recorded extensively with various early music ensembles. Kammen currently lives in El Cerrito, California and continues to record and perform on a variety of medieval instruments including vielle, fiddle, viola da gamba, and harp.

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    Shira Kammen

    Shira Kammen is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.


    Shira Kammen
    She received her degree in music from the University of
    California, Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet
    Tindemans. She has performed and taught throughout the
    world and has played on several television and movie
    soundtracks, including "O", a modern high school-setting of
    Othello.[1] Her music was also licensed for the soundtrack
    of the video game Braid.

    She currently lives in El Cerrito, California. At the 2007 Port Townsend Early Music
    Workshop

    Ensembles Background information


    Genres Early Music, Folk Music
    Shira collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for
    fifteen years, and has been or is a member of or worked Instrument(s) Vielle, Fiddle, Viola da
    with a number of different groups: Gamba, Harp and
    Voice
    Founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to Labels Bright Angel Records
    performance on river rafting trips.
    The Boston Camerata[2] Website www.shirakammen.com
    (http://www.shirakamm
    Camerata Mediterranea
    en.com/)
    Cançonièr, a medieval ensemble
    Ensemble Alcatraz
    Ephemeros new music group
    Fortune's Wheel, a medieval ensemble
    Hespèrion XX
    The King's Noyse[3]
    Medieval Strings
    Panacea, an eclectic ethnic band
    Project Ars Nova[4]
    Sequentia
    Trouz Bras, a band devoted to the dance music of Celtic Brittany
    Joanna Newsom, an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; Kammen plays the
    vielle and the rebec in the song "Kingfisher" on the 2010 album Have One On Me.[5]

    Discography
    (1988) Visions and Miracles with Ensemble Alcatraz. Elektra Nonesuch.
    (1989) Ars Magis Subtiliter with Ensemble P.A.N. (Project Ars Nova). New Albion Records, Inc.
    (1990) Danse Royale with Ensemble Alcatraz. Elektra Nonesuch.
    (1991) The Island of St. Hylarion with Ensemble P.A.N. (Project Ars Nova) New Albion
    Records, Inc.
    (1991) Lo Gai Saber with Camerata Mediterranea. Erato.
    (1992) Homage to Johannes Ciconia with Ensemble P.A.N. (Project Ars Nova). New Albion
    Records, Inc.
    (1994) Remede de Fortune by Guillaume de Machaut with Ensemble P.A.N. (Project Ars
    Nova). New Albion Records, Inc.
    (1994) The Unicorn with Anne Azéma. Erato.
    (1994) Wings of Time with Lauren Pomerantz. Songbird Music.
    (1995) Le Roman de Fauvel with Boston Camerata and Ensemble P.A.N. (Project Ars Nova).
    Erato.
    (1995) Unseen Rain with Ensemble P.A.N. (Project Ars Nova). New Albion Records, Inc.
    (1996) Angeli with Ensemble P.A.N. (Project Ars Nova). Telarc.
    (1996) Le Jeu d'Amour with Anne Azéma. Erato.
    (1996) World's Bliss with John Fleagle. Archetype Records.
    (1997) The Cloister and the Sparrow Hawk: Songs of the Monk of Montaudon (Twelfth
    Century) with Tim Rayborn and Alison Sabedoria. ASV.
    (1997) Tapestry: Song of Songs: Come into my garden. Telarc.
    (1998) Cantigas with Camerata Mediterranea. Erato.
    (1998) Celtic Roads. Revels Records.
    (1998) Provence Mystique with Anne Azéma. Erato.
    (2000) Cantigas de Amigo with Ensemble Alcatraz. Dorian.
    (2002) Music of Waters. Bright Angel Records.
    (2002) Pastourlle with Fortune's Wheel. Dorian Recordings.
    (2003) The Almanac: Time & the Turning Wheel. Bright Angel Records.
    (2003) The Castle of the Holly King: Secular music for the Yuletide. Bright Angel Records.
    (2004) Across The River: Settings of poems from Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. Bright
    Angel Records.
    (2006) Mistral. Bright Angel Records.
    (2008) Ragged, Rent and Torn. Bright Angel Records.
    (2010) Panacea: Songs and Dance Music of Northern and Eastern Europe with Panacea.
    Flaming-Buddha Music.
    (2012) The Dawn of Joy. Magnatune.

    References
    1. "Patrick Ball - The Christmas Rose", [1] (http://www.patrickball.com/pages/shows/flameoflove.p
    hp), accessed July 1, 2009
    2. Kozinn, Allan, (March 7, 1992). "Classical Music in Review". The New York Times, sec. 1 p. 16
    of the New York edition.
    3. Guerrieri, Matthew, (June 14, 2007). "King's Noyse enlivens songs from the French court". The
    Boston Globe, p. E6.
    4. Oestreich, James R. (October 26, 1991). "Classical Music in Review". The New York Times,
    sec. 1 p. 13 of the New York edition.
    5. Have One On Me album booklet

    External links
    Shira Kammen home page (http://www.shirakammen.com/)

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shira_Kammen&oldid=1037490629"

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