Liz Meredith
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Liz Meredith (b. 1981) is a violist, improviser, and composer originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Her solo works are improvisatory in nature, and frequently move towards the outer limits of musical genres being influenced by rock, electronic, and contemporary classical music.
Although classically trained, her initial collaborations were in the realm of string-based rock music, as both a co-founder, and later working with an assortment of individuals, including songwriters, improvisers, electronic musicians and composers. Liz collaborates regularly with guitarist Cooper Formant in the band photovoltic, frequently performs with NYC-based group Teletextile, and is also a member of Satellite, an Oakland-Baltimore-Reyjavik trio, focusing on electro-acoustic improvised music. In addition to playing the viola, she has composed concert works for The Opabinia Quartet and Quartet San Francisco.
Liz received her undergraduate degree from the Berklee College of Music in Viola Performance: jazz performance/improvisation and Film Music, and recently completed her Master's degree in Music Composition from Mills College. While at Mills, Liz studied composition with Fred Frith, Annie Gosfield, Hilda Paredes, and viola performance with Hank Dutt.
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