Shira Kammen

Biography

Shira Kammen is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.
She received her degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans. She has performed and taught throughout the world and has played on several television and movie soundtracks, including "O", a modern high school-setting of Othello. Her music was also licensed for the soundtrack of the video game Braid.
She currently lives in El Cerrito, California.

Ensembles

Shira collaborated with singer/storyteller John Fleagle for fifteen years, and has been or is a member of or worked with a number of different groups:

Founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to performance on river rafting trips.
The Boston Camerata
Camerata Mediterranea
Cançonièr, a medieval ensemble
Ensemble Alcatraz
Ephemeros new music group
Fortune's Wheel, a medieval ensemble
Hespèrion XX
The King's Noyse
Medieval Strings
Panacea, an eclectic ethnic band
Project Ars Nova
Sequentia
Trouz Bras, a band devoted to the dance music of Celtic Brittany
Joanna Newsom, an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; Kammen plays the vielle and the rebec in the song "Kingfisher" on the 2010 album Have One On Me.