Chris Thile

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Christopher Scott Thile (pronounced: ˈθiːliː , born February 20, 1981 in Oceanside , California ) is an American musician. He became known as a mandolinist in the Nickel Creek group. His virtuoso playing and his musical originality earned him the MacArthur Fellow Scholarship in 2012 .

biography

Thile, whose great-grandfather emigrated from Hamburg to the USA, grew up in California and began playing the mandolin at the age of five. At the age of eight he founded the band Nickel Creek together with his father Scott Thile , which released their first album in 1993. In 1994, Leading Off was released , the thirteen-year-old's first solo album.

After the temporary end of the band in 2007, Thile initially recorded other solo albums, the most successful of which, How to Grow a Woman from the Ground (2007), led to the founding of the Punch Brothers , his current formation. The director Mark Meatto documented this career move on film in How to Grow a Band (2011).

The Goat Rodeo Sessions (2011), created in collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma , Stuart Duncan , Edgar Meyer and Aoife O'Donovan , won the 2013 Grammy Award for the best folk album. In the same year he released an album of classical music ( Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1 ).

In March 2014 the album A Dotted Line was released as part of a Nickel Creek reunion . The band appeared together again in November 2013 on the occasion of a promotional event for the Coen Brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis , to the soundtrack of which Thile contributed. In the same year he released the album Bass & Mandolin with the double bass player Edgar Meyer , which earned him another Grammy Award .

A Prairie Home Companion , 2016

The Murray State University in Kentucky awarded in the fall of 2014 her former students the Outstanding Alumnus Award . In October 2016, Thile succeeded Garrison Keillor as host of the radio show A Prairie Home Companion , which was renamed Live from Here at the end of 2017 .

In the same year he recorded the double album Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau with pianist Brad Mehldau , which was released in January 2017 on Nonesuch Records . In April 2017, the album Bach Trios (with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer) was released - also on Nonesuch .

As part of a solo tour through Europe in March 2017, a concert in the new Hamburg Elbphilharmonie was on the program. In late autumn 2017 Thile could be heard in a duo with Brad Mehldau at the Leverkusener Jazz Days .

Chris Thile has been married to actress Claire Coffee since December 23, 2013 . In May 2015, the couple's first child was born.

Awards (selection)

  • 1997 - Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album ( True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe )
  • 2002 - Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album (Nickel Creek: This Side )
  • 2012 - MacArthur Fellowship
  • 2013 - Grammy for Best Folk Album ( The Goat Rodeo Sessions )
  • 2015 - Grammy for the best contemporary instrumental album ( Bass & Mandolin with Edgar Meyer )

Discography (selection)

With Nickel Creek

  • Nickel Creek (2000)
  • This Side (2002)
  • Why Should the Fire Die? (2005)
  • A Dotted Line (2014)

solo

  • Not All Who Wander Are Lost (2001)
  • Deceiver (2004)
  • How to Grow a Woman from the Ground (2006)
  • Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1 (2013)
  • Thanks For Listening (2017, compilation of songs from the weekly radio show)

Punch Brothers

  • Punch (2008)
  • Antifogmatic (2010)
  • Who's Feeling Young Now? (2012)
  • Ahoy! (2012) EP
  • The Phosporescent Blues (2015)
  • The Wireless (EP, 2015)
  • All Ashore (2018)

Further

  • Into the Cauldron (2003), with Mike Marshall
  • Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile (2008), with Edgar Meyer
  • Sleep with One Eye Open (2011), with Michael Daves
  • The Goat Rodeo Sessions (2012), with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan and Aoife O'Donovan
  • Bass & Mandolin (2014) with Edgar Meyer
  • Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau (2017)
  • Bach Trios (2017), with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer

Web links

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  1. ↑ 2012 MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant' Winners . In: 2012-10-01 . AP . Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Mandolin star Chris Thile: The original genius . Spiegel online , February 20, 2015 (accessed July 31, 2018)
  3. ↑ Joan Radell: How To Grow A Band . In: pastemagazine.com, April 13, 2012 (accessed March 29, 2014)
  4. ↑ Nickel Creek confirms reunion tour, UTSandiego, February 3, 2014 (accessed March 29, 2014)
  5. ↑ Thile Recognized at MSU as 2014 Outstanding Alumnus in Fine Arts
  6. ↑ America's secret radio star . FAZ , June 6, 2016 (accessed June 7, 2016)
  7. ↑ Announcement at Nonesuch
  8. ↑ Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer's "Bach Trios" Due April 7 on Nonesuch
  9. ↑ Chris Thile solo , announcement for March 26, 2017 on elbphilharmonie.de
  10. ↑ Chris Thile, Mandolin . Elbphilharmonie, March 26, 2017, concert report by Ricarda Ott, accessed on April 13, 2017
  11. ↑ Leverkusener Jazztage meets Erholungshaus - CHRIS THILE & BRAD MEHLDAU , concert preview for November 16, 2017 on leverkusener-jazztage.de, accessed on December 29, 2017
  12. ↑ Kathy Ehrich Dowd: Claire Coffee of Grimm Weds Musician Chris Thile. In: people.com. December 28, 2013, accessed March 29, 2014 .
  13. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3088113/Claire-Coffee-Chris-Thile-welcome-son-world-sweet-Instagram-snap-reminds-fans-watch-Grimm.html
personal data
SURNAME Thile, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thile, Christopher Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Oceanside , California , USA