Una Palliser
Encyclopedia
Úna Palliser is an Irish born, London
based violin
ist, violist
, singer and multi-instrumentalist
who as well as being classically trained, is recognised for her proficiency in many musical genres, including rock
, balkan, pop
, and Irish folk
. She is best known for her role as the featured solo violinist on Shakira
's The Sun Comes Out World Tour
and as the singer of Irish folk song Mo Ghile Mear
on the Specsavers
'Collie Wobble' advertisement.
, Ireland
where she began learning the violin
at 4 years old at the Cork School of Music. She also studied piano
and viola
and later was a member of the European Youth Orchestra.
Palliser won a number of awards including Wolfson Trust Award, a Royal Philharmonia Martin Musical Scholarship Award, and was a string finalist in the RTE Millennium Musician of the Future Competition. She won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music
in London
where she studied with Garfield Jackson of the Endellion Quartet
for 4 years before graduating with a 1st Class Hons Degree in performance.
, Maxim Vengerov
, The Noisettes
, and Elbow
. Resultantly she has performed on a number of television programs including Later With Jools Holland
, Late Night with Conan O Brien, Top of the Pops
and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
She also appeared in Mark Ronson
's video 'Valerie'.
She toured Europe as part of Gnarls Barkley
's band in 2006, and as solo violinist/violist on Patrick Wolf
's Magic Position tour of the US and Europe in 2007. Later that year she performed as featured violist on Take That
's Beautiful World Tour 2007
.
In 2008 Palliser was the featured lead singer and violinist/violist on the single 'Still Resist The Storm' on BBC World Music Award Winning band Terrafolk
's record Full Circle, which topped the radioplay charts in Slovenia
. This led to many international tours and performances as a featured guest artist with Terrafolk.
Palliser toured as violinist with Moby
on his 2009 summer tour.
In August 2011 she joined Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer
as guest violinist on her UK tour.
In October/November 2011 she performed at the Tribeca Film Festival
in Qatar
as the solo violinist with Leona Lewis
.
Palliser has been described as an 'extraordinary violinist' by the UK's The Independent
newspaper.
on her 2010 / 2011 The Sun Comes Out World Tour
where she also sang back up vocals as well as played the accordion
, whistles and strohviol.
She had a 4 minute improvised solo intro to the last song of Shakira's main set, 'Ojos Asi
'.
" has been used on the Specsavers
'Sheep' advert since 2008.
She is the lead singer and violinist in the four-member band Una & the Balkan Bears which completed its first UK / Ireland tour in May 2010, ending with a performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
in London
.
'Collie Wobble' advertisement (solo vocals, arranger) - Soundtree Music - 2008
with Shakira
with Terrafolk
with Take That
with Smoke Fairies
with The Killers
with The Choirgirl Isabel
with Aled Jones
with Lisa Lois
with Paloma Faith
with Noisettes
/ Radio 1's Live Lounge CD
with Brian Eno
with Mark Ronson
ft Amy Winehouse
with Tony Christie
with Peter Kay
/ Geraldine McQueen
with Gary Barlow
/ Elliot Kennedy
with Peter Raeburn
with Gnarls Barkley
/ Later with Jools Holland
CD
with All Angels
with The Shapeshifters
with Hugh Cornwell
Trident 'splash' advertisement - Soundtree Music (composer, string arranger, violin, 2008)
Smirnoff
' Sea' advertisement - Soundtree Music (violin, viola)
Royal Mail
'Grow' advertisement - Soundtree Music (violin, viola)
Nokia
'Harmony' advertisement - Soundtree Music (vocals)
BBC One
's 'Let's Dance' TV theme - BBC
(violin, viola)
'Love on a Saturday Night
' TV theme - London Weekend Television
/ ITV
(vocals)
'Eva' Short Film Soundtrack - Jeva Films (solo vocals)
'By Hook' Short Film Soundtrack - Virgin Media Shorts / Laura Evers Johns (solo vocals)
Mo Ghile Mear
Strohviol
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 violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist, violist
Violist
-Notable violists:A* Julia Rebekka Adler * Sir Hugh Allen , conductor* Kris Allen * Johann Andreas Amon * Paul Angerer , composer* Steven Ansell * Atar Arad * Cecil Aronowitz...
, singer and multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
who as well as being classically trained, is recognised 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...
, balkan, pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, and Irish folk
Folk music of Ireland
The folk music of Ireland is the generic term for music that has been created in various genres in Ireland.-History:...
. She is best known for her role as the featured solo violinist on Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
's The Sun Comes Out World Tour
The Sun Comes Out World Tour
The Sun Comes Out World Tour is the fifth concert tour by Colombian singer-songwriter, Shakira. The tour is in support of her sixth and seventh studio albums, She Wolf and Sale El Sol. The tour will reach the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa...
and as the singer of Irish folk song Mo Ghile Mear
Mo Ghile Mear
"Mo Ghile Mear" is an old Irish song, written in the Irish language by Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill in the 18th century. Composed in the convention of Aisling poetry, it is a lament by the Gaelic goddess Éire for Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was then in exile.The song differs from more "conventional"...
on the Specsavers
Specsavers
Specsavers Optical Group Ltd is the biggest optical retailer in the UK and Ireland. It is also the biggest of the four major opticians that control 70% of the British market for spectacles and contact lenses, with Specsavers having a 39% share of the market...
'Collie Wobble' advertisement.
Early life
Una was born in CorkCork (city)
Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...
, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
where she began learning the violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
at 4 years old at the Cork School of Music. She also studied piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
and viola
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
and later was a member of the European Youth Orchestra.
Palliser won a number of awards including Wolfson Trust Award, a Royal Philharmonia Martin Musical Scholarship Award, and was a string finalist in the RTE Millennium Musician of the Future Competition. She won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
in London
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...
where she studied with Garfield Jackson of the Endellion Quartet
Endellion Quartet
The Endellion String Quartet is a British string quartet named after St Endellion in Cornwall.The quartet was formed in 1979 and has been 'Quartet in Residence' at Cambridge University since 1992. It has an extensive discography and appears in concert halls around the world. In 1997 the quartet...
for 4 years before graduating with a 1st Class Hons Degree in performance.
Career
Una has recorded and performed as a session musician with many artists such as The Killers, P Diddy, Buena Vista Social ClubBuena Vista Social Club
The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s...
, Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union.-Youth:Born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russia, to a family with musical tradition....
, The Noisettes
The Noisettes
Noisettes are an English indie rock band from London, comprising singer and bassist Shingai Shoniwa, guitarist Dan Smith, and drummer Jamie Morrison...
, and Elbow
Elbow (band)
Elbow are an English rock band. They have played together since 1990 and recorded five studio albums, the most recent of which is Build a Rocket Boys!, released in March 2011...
. Resultantly she has performed on a number of television programs including Later With Jools Holland
Later with Jools Holland
Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland. A spin-off of The Late Show, it has been running in short series since 1992 and is a part of BBC Two's late-night line-up, usually at around 11pm to 12 midnight...
, Late Night with Conan O Brien, 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...
and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross was a British comedy chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 November 2001. The programme featured Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band...
She also appeared in Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson is an English DJ, guitarist, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. He currently works with his band under the music alias of Mark Ronson & The Business Intl....
's video 'Valerie'.
She toured Europe as part of Gnarls Barkley
Gnarls Barkley
Gnarls Barkley is an American soul duo comprising Danger Mouse and Cee Lo Green. Their first studio album St. Elsewhere was released in 2006; along with its first single "Crazy". Both single and album were a major commercial success and have been noted for their large sales by download...
's band in 2006, and as solo violinist/violist on Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf is an English-Irish singer-songwriter from South London. Patrick utilises a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano and viola...
's Magic Position tour of the US and Europe in 2007. Later that year she performed as featured violist on Take That
Take That
Take That are a British five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter...
's Beautiful World Tour 2007
Beautiful World Tour 2007
The Beautiful World Tour is the second tour from Take That after completing The Ultimate Tour in summer 2006. The show ran from October 11 to December 31, 2007 and was shown in the UK and countries all over Europe. It was a sellout tour and every date for the tour sold out in less than 40 minutes...
.
In 2008 Palliser was the featured lead singer and violinist/violist on the single 'Still Resist The Storm' on BBC World Music Award Winning band Terrafolk
Terrafolk
thumb|220px|Terrafolk in concert Terrafolk is a Slovenian folk band which formed in 1999 at Festival Lent in Slovenia. They quickly rose to fame, performing at numerous fesivals throughout Europe, including the Edinburgh Fringe and Glastonbury, before winning the BBC World Music Audience Award in...
's record Full Circle, which topped the radioplay charts in Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
. This led to many international tours and performances as a featured guest artist with Terrafolk.
Palliser toured as violinist with Moby
Moby
Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...
on his 2009 summer tour.
In August 2011 she joined Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer
Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer , sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls...
as guest violinist on her UK tour.
In October/November 2011 she performed at the Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
in Qatar
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...
as the solo violinist with Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor....
.
Palliser has been described as an 'extraordinary violinist' by the UK's The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
newspaper.
Shakira
In 2010, Palliser was invited to feature as the solo violinist with ShakiraShakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
on her 2010 / 2011 The Sun Comes Out World Tour
The Sun Comes Out World Tour
The Sun Comes Out World Tour is the fifth concert tour by Colombian singer-songwriter, Shakira. The tour is in support of her sixth and seventh studio albums, She Wolf and Sale El Sol. The tour will reach the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa...
where she also sang back up vocals as well as played the accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
, whistles and strohviol.
She had a 4 minute improvised solo intro to the last song of Shakira's main set, 'Ojos Asi
Ojos Así
"Ojos Así" is a song in Spanish by Colombian singer Shakira, and was released as the fourth single from her album ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? on July 23, 1999. Today, "Ojos Así" is one of Shakira's most successful songs of her career...
'.
Vocals
Palliser's recording of the Irish folk song "Mo Ghile MearMo Ghile Mear
"Mo Ghile Mear" is an old Irish song, written in the Irish language by Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill in the 18th century. Composed in the convention of Aisling poetry, it is a lament by the Gaelic goddess Éire for Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was then in exile.The song differs from more "conventional"...
" has been used on the Specsavers
Specsavers
Specsavers Optical Group Ltd is the biggest optical retailer in the UK and Ireland. It is also the biggest of the four major opticians that control 70% of the British market for spectacles and contact lenses, with Specsavers having a 39% share of the market...
'Sheep' advert since 2008.
She is the lead singer and violinist in the four-member band Una & the Balkan Bears which completed its first UK / Ireland tour in May 2010, ending with a performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club which has operated in London since 1959.The club opened on 30 October 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was managed by musicians Ronnie Scott and Pete King. In 1965 it moved to a larger venue nearby at 47 Frith Street...
in London
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...
.
Personal life
Palliser currently lives in London. Her brother Conor Palliser is a conductor and pianist and brother Ronan Palliser is a photographer. Her father plays Irish folk music including harmonica and whistles.Solo
SpecsaversSpecsavers
Specsavers Optical Group Ltd is the biggest optical retailer in the UK and Ireland. It is also the biggest of the four major opticians that control 70% of the British market for spectacles and contact lenses, with Specsavers having a 39% share of the market...
'Collie Wobble' advertisement (solo vocals, arranger) - Soundtree Music - 2008
with Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
- Je ľaime a mourir (solo violin, string arranger, 2011)
- Live From ParisShakira: Live from ParisShakira: Live from Paris titled Shakira, En Vivo Desde Paris in Spain, Latin America, and North America. is the upcoming fourth live album by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. The album will be released on December 6, 2011 on three different formats including a live CD/DVD standard DVD, and...
(solo violin, vocals, accordion, strohviol, 2011)
with Terrafolk
Terrafolk
thumb|220px|Terrafolk in concert Terrafolk is a Slovenian folk band which formed in 1999 at Festival Lent in Slovenia. They quickly rose to fame, performing at numerous fesivals throughout Europe, including the Edinburgh Fringe and Glastonbury, before winning the BBC World Music Audience Award in...
- 'Still Resist the Storm' (solo vocals, violin, viola) - single - Full Circle Album- Music Net, Menart (2008)
with Take That
Take That
Take That are a British five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter...
- Beautiful World Live - Universal (viola, 2008)
with Smoke Fairies
Smoke Fairies
Smoke Fairies is a British blues and folk musical duo formed by Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies.- History :Blamire and Davies met at school in Sussex during the late 1990s...
- Troubles - Music For Heroes Records (solo fiddle, viola, 2008)
Other recordings
with Carl BaratCarl Barât
Carl Ashley Raphael Barât is an English musician, actor and author. He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things, and recently debuted a solo album, but is best known for being the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the garage rock band The Libertines.-Early life:Carl Barât was...
- So Long My Lover (violin, viola) - PIAS Recordings, Arcady Records (2010)
- Ode To A Girl (violin, viola) - PIAS Recordings, Arcady Records (2010)
with The Killers
- A Dustland Fairytale - Live At Abbey Road - Channel 4 - 2010
with The Choirgirl Isabel
- The Choirgirl album - Universal UK (violin, viola, 2010)
with Aled Jones
Aled Jones
Aled Jones is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality, broadcaster and television presenter who first came to fame as a treble...
- Aled's Christmas Gift album (viola, 2010)
with Lisa Lois
- Smoke album - SBC/Sony BMG - (viola, 2010)
with Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith is a British singer-songwriter and actress. In 2009, she released her debut single "Stone Cold Sober", then her debut album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, which was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. Her debut album stayed within the top 40 album...
- Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? - Sony Music (viola, 2009)
with Noisettes
Noisettes
Noisettes are an English indie rock band from London, comprising singer and bassist Shingai Shoniwa, guitarist Dan Smith, and drummer Jamie Morrison...
/ Radio 1's Live Lounge CD
- When We Were Young (Killers cover) BBC Radio (2009)
with Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
- The Lovely Bones Soundtrack (2009)
with Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson is an English DJ, guitarist, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. He currently works with his band under the music alias of Mark Ronson & The Business Intl....
ft Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse was an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize...
- Valerie video (viola, 2008)
with Tony Christie
Tony Christie
Tony Christie is an English musician, singer and actor. He is best known for his track, "Is This The Way To Amarillo", a double UK chart success.-Career:Tony Christie has sold over 10 million albums Worldwide...
- Made In Sheffield album (viola, 2008)
with Peter Kay
Peter Kay
Peter John Kay is an English comedian, writer, actor, director and producer. His work includes That Peter Kay Thing , Phoenix Nights , Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere , Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and other independent productions which have included two sell out tours.-Early career:Peter Kay...
/ Geraldine McQueen
- Once Upon a Christmas Song - Polydor Records (viola, string arrangements, 2008)
with Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and record producer. He is frontman and lead vocalist of pop group Take That and is currently the head judge on the eighth series of The X Factor. Barlow is one of Britain's most successful songwriters...
/ Elliot Kennedy
- Without You / Brittania High soundtrack - Polydor Records - (viola, string arrangements, 2008)
with Peter Raeburn
Peter Raeburn
Peter Raeburn is an award-winning London based musician known for his work in TV commercials and films.He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and shortly after the family moved to London, where he was raised. His paternal grandfather was an opera singer and music was a part of his family life...
- You and Me album - Nowever Records (violin, viola, 2008)
with Gnarls Barkley
Gnarls Barkley
Gnarls Barkley is an American soul duo comprising Danger Mouse and Cee Lo Green. Their first studio album St. Elsewhere was released in 2006; along with its first single "Crazy". Both single and album were a major commercial success and have been noted for their large sales by download...
/ Later with Jools Holland
Jools Holland
Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Who, David Gilmour and Bono.Holland is a...
CD
- Crazy - BBC (viola/violin, 2007)
with All Angels
All Angels
All Angels are a British classical crossover group formed in 2006, consisting of Daisy Chute, Rachel Fabri, Melanie Nakhla andCharlotte Ritchie....
- All Angels (album)All Angels (album)All Angels is the debut album by English Classical crossover group All Angels, released in November 2006. The album sold 33,000 in its first week in the UK becoming the fastest selling classical debut in UK chart history and reached the Top 10 on the UK Album Chart...
- Universal (viola, 2006)
with The Shapeshifters
- Beautiful Heartache - Positiva, EMI (viola, 2006)
with Hugh Cornwell
Hugh Cornwell
Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk/new wave group, The Stranglers, from 1974 to 1990.-Career:...
- Gingerbread Girl - Koch Entertainment (viola, 2000)
Trident 'splash' advertisement - Soundtree Music (composer, string arranger, violin, 2008)
Smirnoff
Smirnoff
Smirnoff is a brand of vodka owned and produced by the British company Diageo. The Smirnoff brand began with a vodka distillery founded in Moscow by Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov , the son of illiterate Russian peasants. It is now distributed in 130 countries.Smirnoff products include vodka, flavored...
' Sea' advertisement - Soundtree Music (violin, viola)
Royal Mail
Royal Mail
Royal Mail is the government-owned postal service in the United Kingdom. Royal Mail Holdings plc owns Royal Mail Group Limited, which in turn operates the brands Royal Mail and Parcelforce Worldwide...
'Grow' advertisement - Soundtree Music (violin, viola)
Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
'Harmony' advertisement - Soundtree Music (vocals)
BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
's 'Let's Dance' TV theme - BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
(violin, viola)
'Love on a Saturday Night
Love on a Saturday Night
Love on A Saturday Night was a London Weekend Television produced game show that aired on ITV between 7 February and 22 May 2004. It was a replacement show for Blind Date, and lasted only one and a half series before being axed.-The main game:...
' TV theme - London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties including south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Warwickshire, east Dorset and...
/ ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
(vocals)
'Eva' Short Film Soundtrack - Jeva Films (solo vocals)
'By Hook' Short Film Soundtrack - Virgin Media Shorts / Laura Evers Johns (solo vocals)
Tours
- ShakiraShakiraShakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
(violin, electric violin, strohviol, accordion, whistle, percussion, backing vocals, 2010–present) - MobyMobyRichard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...
(violin, electric violin, 2009) - Take ThatTake ThatTake That are a British five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter...
Beautiful World Tour 2007Beautiful World Tour 2007The Beautiful World Tour is the second tour from Take That after completing The Ultimate Tour in summer 2006. The show ran from October 11 to December 31, 2007 and was shown in the UK and countries all over Europe. It was a sellout tour and every date for the tour sold out in less than 40 minutes...
(viola, 2007) - Patrick WolfPatrick WolfPatrick Wolf is an English-Irish singer-songwriter from South London. Patrick utilises a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano and viola...
Magic Position Tour (electric violin, viola, 2007) - Gnarls BarkleyGnarls BarkleyGnarls Barkley is an American soul duo comprising Danger Mouse and Cee Lo Green. Their first studio album St. Elsewhere was released in 2006; along with its first single "Crazy". Both single and album were a major commercial success and have been noted for their large sales by download...
(violin, viola, 2006)
See also
Ojos AsiMo Ghile Mear
Strohviol
External links
- Una Palliser's MySpace
- Una Palliser's Facebook Music Page
- Una Palliser on TwitterTwitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...