Zeena Parkins (born 1956) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp".[1] Parkins performs on standard harps, several custom electric harps, piano, and accordion. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and professor in the Music Department at Mills College.[2]
^Ross, Alex (March 27, 1993). "Zeena Parkins Avant-Garde Harpist Roulette". The New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
^"Zeena Parkins". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
ZeenaParkins (born 1956) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz...
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English avant-rock group founded in 1983 by Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper, ZeenaParkins and Dagmar Krause. They made two studio albums with several guest musicians...
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this tour and 31 different songs. The tour band consisted of harpist ZeenaParkins, electronic duo Matmos, a Greenlandic choir and a 70-piece orchestra...
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world tour in 2001, which featured Vespertine collaborators Matmos and ZeenaParkins, an Inuit choir, and an orchestra. During the tour, Björk performed...
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Learn to Talk (1984) and The Country of Blinds (1986), the latter with ZeenaParkins who had joined the band in 1984. In October 1983 Skeleton Crew joined...
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Rolling Stone said, "In 'Pagan Poetry', she deploys the implied heaven of ZeenaParkins harp and a flotilla of music boxes with an Asian-teahouse touch." Blender...
Frith, Tom Cora, Toshinori Kondo, Wayne Horvitz, Eugene Chadbourne, ZeenaParkins, Anthony Coleman, Polly Bradfield, Ikue Mori, Robert Dick, Ned Rothenberg...
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some American criminal groups in the 1930s and the 1940s, and harpist ZeenaParkins' 1996 album Mouth=Maul=Betrayer made use of spoken Rotwelsch texts....
that comes with the Live Box, but also new interviews with Lynn Fox, ZeenaParkins, Matmos and Leila, who were all involved in Björk's 2003 tour. Although...
including two Irish Music Awards Annemiek Padt-Jansen Şirin Pancaroğlu ZeenaParkins John Parry - (1710–1782) - blind Welsh harpist, credited with writing...
The Eyes Of Creation (1992) Hank Roberts: Little Motor People (1992) ZeenaParkins: Ursa's Door (1992) Steve Turre: Sanctified Shells (1992) Pat Metheny:...
harps. Rüdiger Oppermann performs on his self-made electric harps. ZeenaParkins plays and composes avant-garde and experimental music. Played on several...