Anna Phoebe
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Anna Phoebe is a London
-based violinist, who is known for her proficiency in many musical genres, including rock
, folk
, jazz, Celtic
, and Middle Eastern
music
.
when she was four, and she was raised in Scotland
where she started learning the violin aged seven. She moved to London to study at the London School of Economics
, studying Social Policy & Government. While studying at LSE, Anna supported herself by working as a stuntwoman and worked on the Bond movie 'Die Another Day'. Her appearance was uncredited.
, working for producers, bands, singers in all genres.
Phoebe has been hired by many musicians, including Sean "P Diddy" Combs
, Robin Gibb
, Ronan Keating
, Liberty X
, George Michael
, LeAnn Rimes
and Nitin Sawhney
. Resultantly, she has appeared on various television shows, including Top of the Pops
, The Michael Parkinson Show, MTV
and GMTV
; as well as music festivals, including Glastonbury
and The Big Chill
. Phoebe also features in the theme tune for the Turner Prize
2005 exhibition, and played Oi Va Voi
.
Phoebe was a guest star in 2007's "Jethro Tull
World Tour," after an approach by Ian Anderson
, and appeared on several occasions in later years with Anderson and his band.
In 2009 Anna started working at the internet rock & metal station, TotalRock
, as a stand in DJ.
In Summer 2010 she toured festivals with Roxy Music playing violin and keyboards.
She is currently playing with Jon Lord (Deep Purple) as his violinist, with performances in Russia and Sicily and as part of the Sunflower Jam which will be held at Royal Albert Hall in July 2011. http://www.thesunflowerjam.com/
through 26 states around West and Central USA. She performed nearly 70 dates in arenas to audiences of up to 15,000 people. Venues have included the Phoenix Arena, American Airline Center in Dallas, the Pepsi Center in Denver, the Save Mart Center
in Fresno, HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York
, and the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. She toured with the TSO East Coast band in 2008 and 2009. Anna decided to move on from TSO in August 2010 stating, "I feel that I have taken my role as TSO violinist as far as it can go and it is time for me to hand the bow to someone else".
, and mixed and recorded by Nick Wollage. She released her second solo album on iTunes
, titled Rise of the Warrior.
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
-based violinist, who is known for her proficiency in many musical genres, including rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
, jazz, Celtic
Celtic music
Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe...
, and Middle Eastern
Middle Eastern music
The music of Western Asia and North Africa spans across a vast region, from Morocco to Afghanistan, and its influences can be felt even further afield. Middle Eastern music influenced the music of India, as well as Central Asia, Spain, Southern Italy, the Caucasus and the Balkans, as in chalga...
music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
.
Biography
Born in Germany to a German mother, she has a Greek-Irish father. The family moved to the United KingdomUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
when she was four, and she was raised in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
where she started learning the violin aged seven. She moved to London to study at the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
, studying Social Policy & Government. While studying at LSE, Anna supported herself by working as a stuntwoman and worked on the Bond movie 'Die Another Day'. Her appearance was uncredited.
Career
Having played through university, on graduation she devoted herself to music, doing anything and everything as a session musicianSession musician
Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...
, working for producers, bands, singers in all genres.
Phoebe has been hired by many musicians, including Sean "P Diddy" Combs
Sean Combs
Sean John Combs , also known by his stage names Diddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. He has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and his clothing line earned a Council of Fashion Designers of America award. He was originally...
, Robin Gibb
Robin Gibb
Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE is a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice , and elder brother Barry....
, Ronan Keating
Ronan Keating
Ronan Patrick John Keating is an Irish recording artist, singer-songwriter, musician, and philanthropist. Keating debuted on the professional music scene alongside Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately, in 1994 as the lead singer of Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999, and...
, Liberty X
Liberty X
Liberty X were a British pop vocal group formed by the five contestants eliminated from the final ten qualifiers from the 2001 ITV show Popstars. The group consisted of Tony Lundon, Kevin Simm, Michelle Heaton, Kelli Young and Jessica Taylor...
, George Michael
George Michael
George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
, LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...
and Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney is an Indian-British musician, producer and composer. His critically acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality...
. Resultantly, she has appeared on various television shows, including Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
, The Michael Parkinson Show, MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
and GMTV
GMTV
GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...
; as well as music festivals, including Glastonbury
Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...
and The Big Chill
The Big Chill (music festival)
The Big Chill is an annual festival of alternative, dance and chill-out music and comedy, held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle during early August...
. Phoebe also features in the theme tune for the Turner Prize
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
2005 exhibition, and played Oi Va Voi
Oi Va Voi
Oi Va Voi is a British band that takes its name from a Yiddish-derived exclamation popular in modern Hebrew meaning, approximately, "Oh, dear!" It is an experimental band from London, England, which formed in the late 1990s...
.
Phoebe was a guest star in 2007's "Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)
Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...
World Tour," after an approach by Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson (musician)
Ian Scott Anderson, MBE is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as the leader and flautist of British rock band Jethro Tull.-Early life:...
, and appeared on several occasions in later years with Anderson and his band.
In 2009 Anna started working at the internet rock & metal station, TotalRock
TotalRock
TotalRock is a radio station based in London, England. The station first started in 1997 as Rock Radio Network , changing name to TotalRock in 2000...
, as a stand in DJ.
In Summer 2010 she toured festivals with Roxy Music playing violin and keyboards.
She is currently playing with Jon Lord (Deep Purple) as his violinist, with performances in Russia and Sicily and as part of the Sunflower Jam which will be held at Royal Albert Hall in July 2011. http://www.thesunflowerjam.com/
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Phoebe first joined the TSO West Coast Band in 2004. She was invited back in both 2005 and 2006, making her the first String Director and Soloist to return for a third year running, and returned in 2007 as part of the (east) band. As part of the TSO, Phoebe toured for three months every ChristmasChristmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
through 26 states around West and Central USA. She performed nearly 70 dates in arenas to audiences of up to 15,000 people. Venues have included the Phoenix Arena, American Airline Center in Dallas, the Pepsi Center in Denver, the Save Mart Center
Save Mart Center
Save Mart Center at Fresno State is a multi-purpose arena, on the campus of the California State University, Fresno, located in Fresno, California...
in Fresno, HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
, and the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. She toured with the TSO East Coast band in 2008 and 2009. Anna decided to move on from TSO in August 2010 stating, "I feel that I have taken my role as TSO violinist as far as it can go and it is time for me to hand the bow to someone else".
Solo career
Phoebe finished her debut solo rock violin albumette Gypsy, co-written with TSO rock guitarist, Angus ClarkAngus Clark
Angus Clark is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer. He has toured with the internationally renowned and Grammy-winning New Age artist Kitaro, as well as with the hard rock acts Drill and Naked Sun, and is currently touring with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and DareDevil Squadron...
, and mixed and recorded by Nick Wollage. She released her second solo album on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
, titled Rise of the Warrior.
Oi Va Voi
- Oi Va VoiOi Va Voi (album)Oi Va Voi is the third studio album released by London, England based experimental band Oi Va Voi.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Nik Ammar - guitar, vocals*Bridgette Amofah - vocals*Josh Breslaw - drums*Stephen Levi - clarinet*David Orchant - trumpet...
(2007) - Travelling the Face of the GlobeTravelling the Face of the Globe-Personnel:*Nik Ammar - guitar, charango, strumstick, kazoo, percussion*Bridgette Amofah - vocals*Josh Breslaw - drums, percussion*Steve Levi - clarinet, vocals*Dave Orchant - trumpet*Anna Phoebe - violin*Lucy Shaw - double bass, electric bass-External links:...
(2009)