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NINE WINDS DISCOGRAPHY:
violinCarla Kihlstedt is a founding member of both Tin Hat Trio, (an accordion-violin-guitar trio whose two cds are out on Capitol;s Angel/EMI Records), and of the art-rock band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum . Most recently, Carla is working on a solo project, Two Foot Yard , using both her violin and her voice simultaneously. She was one of three singers in the band Charming Hostess for six years.
Though she has strayed far from where she was planted, Carla Kihlstedt has strong roots in classical music. She studied at the Peabody, the San Francisco, and the Oberlin Conservatories of Music. She has become an influential musical voice in the San Francisco Bay Area since moving there 8 years ago, exploring the range of her instrument in many other settings.
Carla has performed as a violinist in the past year with pianist Awadagin Pratt and clarinetist, Don Byron . She is a frequent performer with Ear Play , the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players . Last year, she was a featured soloist on the MATA festival in New York, and was commissioned by Merkin Hall in New York City to write and perform a duo for their emerging composer series (Zoom: Composers Close-Up) for clarinetist David Krakauer . She has contributed to the recordings of Tom Waits ,Mr. Bungle , and the Grassy Knoll . Her solo CD for the Tzadik label appears in 2003.
Carla has always been very interested by the influence that music, theater, and movement have on one another. She has worked extensively with choreographers, including Jo Kreiter and her company Flyaway Productions, Eleni Drogaris, and Shinichi Momo Koga/inkBoat .
