Julia Kent | |
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| Origin | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Cello |
| Years active | 1989–present |
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Julia Kent is a Canadian cellist and composer from Vancouver, Canada, and based in New York City, United States. [1] She has performed as a member of Rasputina and with Antony and the Johnsons.
Kent creates music using looped cello, found sounds, and electronics. In 2007, she released her first solo album, Delay, on Important Records. [1] An EP, Last Day in July, was released in 2010, and a second full-length record, Green and Grey, in 2011, on Tin Angel. [2]
In 2013 Kent moved to The Leaf Label, releasing her third solo album, Character , in March. [3] [4] Her album Asperities was released on Leaf on 30 October 2015. Kent spoke about the album in an interview, saying "I was thinking about the concept of difficulty. Whether in life or in nature—of conflict, of being troubled. The idea of friction. Also in geology, an asperity is some part of a faultline that doesn't move which can create an earthquake, which is quite an evocative concept ... In the music there is an inherent sense of dissonance; that things are too close for comfort. More generally, it seems like a particularly dark time in the world right now, and I think that definitely had an influence too". [5] [6]
Her composition "Dorval" was used in the 2008 film Trinidad , [7] and in an episode of National Public Radio's Radiolab . [8]
In 2011, her composition "Gardermoen," from Delay, was used in Paolo Sorrentino's movie This Must Be the Place . [9]
She composed music for the Canadian documentary film The Boxing Girls of Kabul, [10] the short film Birthplace, [11] A Short History of Decay , and Oasis, which won Best Short Film at the Seville European Film Festival 2015. [12]
She has also composed and performed music for theatre and dance, including productions by the Italian company Balletto Civile. [13]
As a solo artist, she has appeared at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain, [14] the Meltdown festival in London, England, [15] the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, [16] the CTM Festival in Berlin, Germany, [17] the 24-Hour Drone in Hudson, New York, and the Unsound Festival in New York City. [18]
Zoë Clare Keating is a Canadian-American cellist and composer once based in San Francisco, California, now based in Vermont.
Anohni and the Johnsons is a music ensemble originally based in New York City that presents the work of English singer-songwriter Anohni and her collaborators. The band released their self-titled debut album in 2000. Their second album, 2005's I Am a Bird Now, was certified Gold in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland; it also was awarded that year's UK Mercury Prize.
Antony Cooke, is an American cellist, recording artist, former university professor, composer, and author of published books and articles on musicology and astronomy. Cooke's formal music and musicology training in London and subsequent career as a professional musician and recording artist are complemented by his intensive studies into astronomy.
Éliane Radigue is a French electronic music composer. She began working in the 1950s and her first compositions were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created with the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer and tape. Since 2001 she has composed mainly for acoustic instruments.
Anohni Hegarty, styled as ANOHNI, is an English-born singer, songwriter, and visual artist. She has presented solo work and as the lead singer of the band Anohni and the Johnsons, formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons.
Matthew Bourne is an English multi-instrumentalist, primarily working with piano and keyboards.
Thao Nguyen, also known as Thao, is an American singer-songwriter originally from Virginia and now based in San Francisco. She is the former lead singer, songwriter and figurehead of the defunct band Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, and has collaborated with Joanna Newsom and Andrew Bird. Outside of the band she has collaborated on projects with several artists including Merrill Garbus, The Portland Cello Project, and Mirah. Her music is influenced by folk, country, and hip hop.
Michel van der Aa is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.
Dive Index is a collaborative musical project originated by Los Angeles-based electronic music composer/producer Will Thomas.
Mary Ocher ("Oh-chur") is a recording artist, performer, poet, director and visual artist.
Svante Henryson is a composer, cellist, bass guitarist and double bassist, active within jazz, classical music, and hard rock.
Laurel Anne Chartow, known professionally as Laurel Halo, is an American electronic musician currently based in Los Angeles, California. She released her debut album Quarantine on Hyperdub in 2012 to critical acclaim; it was named album of the year by The Wire.
The Boxing Girls of Kabul is a 2012 Canadian documentary film directed by Ariel Nasr. The film follows young women boxers, under which Sadaf Rahimi, and their coach Sabir Sharifi at Afghanistan’s female boxing academy, as these athletes face harassment and threats in their efforts to represent their country in international competition and attempt to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Jacob Mauney Cooper is an American composer living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Polar Bear is the third album by Sebastian Rochford's British jazz band, Polar Bear.
Character is the fourth full-length album by Canadian cellist Julia Kent, released on The Leaf Label on 4 March 2013.
Deborah Pritchard is a British composer. She is known for her concert works, a compositional approach informed by her synaesthesia, and her work in response to visual artists, most notably Maggi Hambling, Hugie O'Donoghue and Marc Chagall. She also paints music in the form of visualisations and music maps. The London Symphony Orchestra premiered her large orchestral piece The Angel Standing in the Sun at LSO St Lukes in 2015, her violin concerto Calandra was premiered by Jennifer Pike and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, London in 2022 and Radiance for solo cello, responding to The Peace Window by Marc Chagall at the United Nations, was premiere by Natalie Clein at the Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival in 2022. She won a British Composer Award for her solo violin piece Inside Colour in 2017,
Rasputina is an American rock band based in New York City, known for an unconventional music style, as well as a fascination with historical allegories and fashion, especially those pertaining to the Victorian era.
Temporal is the sixth studio album by Canadian cellist Julia Kent. It was released on January 25, 2019 through The Leaf Label.
Ailbhe McDonagh is an Irish concert cellist and composer. She performs worldwide as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist with many albums to her name. McDonagh has also composed works for orchestra, chamber music ensembles and pedagocial purposes. Her compositions have been published by Boosey & Hawkes, Hal Leonard, RIAM and ABRSM. McDonagh is a professor of cello at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland.
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