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She is a singer, arranger, music director, researcher and
teacher who was raised in California in the Santa Monica mountains’
foothills. Her further education
too her to Scripps College to earn a degree in music and folklore and she
followed that by enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania where she
studied for a degree in folklore and folklife. When she
started singing she concentrated on traditional folk music but her
attention moved to music of renaissance and medieval times and this
led her to New York where she became a co-founder of the a-cappella
ensemble Anonymous
4
.
Aside from singing and recording with the group, she also acts as a history
and language researcher and adapter for the material they perform at their
concerts. In her
role as a music director she has worked with Anonymous
4
in that capacity on their
albums American Angels and Gloryland. The albums she has appeared on are
many and include all of the Anonymous
4
recordings, many of which have won
awards and appeared on the classical album charts. She has also featured on
Generation Nation by Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings and the
original 2006 soundtrack of Work and the Glory: American Zion. In 2004 she returned to her native
California and took on the role as an Assistant Professor at Stanford
University where she taught the history of medieval music and form an vocal
ensemble. She also attended as
a visiting scholar there. She gives many workshops on sacred
and secular songs in the Bay Area and is still working with Anonymous
4
on their recent projects.
Awake
and Join the Cheerful Choir (English Traditional)
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907325 (CD: Wolcum Yule)
Harp - Andrew
Lawrence King
Sources:
- http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/vocals/12838.php
- http://www.anonymous4.com/index.htm
- http://www.anonymous4.com/index2.htm?catchingmarsha.html
- http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:dcfrxqqgldae~T4
- http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:25499~T3
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