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Check out my CD and companion music book, New New Nothing
Visit the website of my award-winning ensemble, Plaine & Easie
Discover my monthly concert series for families, KidsAcoustic
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Information about hiring me to play for parties or other celebrations
And here are some press photos
Shulamit Kleinerman specializes in early off-the-shoulder technique on medieval vielle and renaissance violin. Living in Seattle since 2000, she is a founding member of the crossover vielle duo Cinnamon Bird and of the Elizabethan quartet Plaine & Easie, which won both Early Music America's 2009 Unicorn Prize in medieval and renaissance music and the audience award at the competition.
In theatrical settings, Shula has performed with the Portland and Puget Sound Revels and has served as instrumental director with Revels Houston and Brian Kooser Puppets. As a historical dancer from 2004-2006 with Seattle Early Dance, she performed at Seattle's Benaroya Hall and in the Early Music Guild's fully-staged production of John Blow's Venus and Adonis at ACT. Her 2008 CD of seventeenth-century English country dances in original duo arrangements, New New Nothing, was produced with an artist residency at Jack Straw Productions.
She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1999 with a double major in English and music, receiving a Hertz Fellowship to study baroque violin in London with Monica Huggett.
Shula also writes and lectures about music history, maintains a full private studio of modern violin and early-instrument students, and teaches her own classes in historical arts and early music performance for school-aged children. In 2010, she is creating a CD and teachers' guidebook featuring music from the 12th-18th centuries for kids to dance and sing.
Sound Clips
17c English country dance in original arrangements, from New New Nothing
Hey Boys, Up Go We with Charles Coldwell, recorder
Europe's Revels with Arcana Ferschke, violin
Elizabethan Music
A feast of sound clips with Plaine & Easie
Early Tudor
Original divisions on Pastyme with Good Company
with Cristina Villareale, soprano, and Lisa Lewis, harpsichord
Medieval (on vielle)
Haute chose a en amour
Circa Canit Michael with Jacob Breedlove, hurdy-gurdy
De son tort with Jacob Breedlove, percussion
Music for Private Events
Contact me to discuss options for music at your event. The woman quoted below asked for a short, costumed mini-recital at a party for an early music enthusiast -- something I never would have thought of on my own, but it worked beautifully!
I could tell everyone was enjoying your performance and sure enough they were talking about it the rest of the evening. No one had ever had such an experience. Not just the music, but your presentation was also so charming. It simply could not have been better. I am so glad I called you and hope to do so some day again.