Amy Knoles

Amy Knoles (born before 1980) is an American musician (electronic percussion).

Knoles discovered Morton Subotnick's interest in interactive computer music while working on multimedia pieces in the late 1970s . She studied electronic percussion at the California Institute for the Arts , where she now heads Electronic Percussion Studios . She was composer-in-residence at the Music Center of Los Angeles , received the Subito Grant from the American Composers Forum , the Lester Horton Award , the UNESCO International Prize for the Performing Arts-2000 , the Individual Artist Fellowship Award and the Composer in Residence Grant from the American Composers Forum .

For thirty years she directed the California EAR Unit , which was ensemble in residence at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for nineteen years working with The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater . She has performed at numerous international festivals for new music and has worked with musicians such as Rachel Rosenthal , Robert Henke (Monolake), Frank Zappa , Morton Subotnick , Alison Knowles , Michael Sakamoto , Victoria Marks , Basso Bongo , John Cage , Elliott Carter , Julia Wolfe , Morton Feldman , David Lang , Mauricio Kagel , Vinko Globokar , Michael Gordon , Louis Andriessen , Stephen Mosko , Charles Wuorinen , Don Preston , Arthur Jarvinen , Steve Reich , Tod Machover , Quincy Jones and Ulrich Krieger together,

She realized projects in video, dance and performance art with Rachel Rosenthal , Victoria Marks , Michael Sakamoto , Waewdao Sirisook , Heidi Duckler 's Dance Theater , the Margarete Jenkins Dance Company , Lynette Kessler , Doug Elkins and Wendy Rogers . Their discography includes more than thirty CDs.

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SURNAME	Knoles, Amy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American musician (electronic percussion)
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1980