Chris Thile

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

Biography

Thile grew up in California and started out as a five year old with the mandolin. At eight, he founded together with his father Scott Thile the band Nickel Creek, published in 1993 their first album. In 1994 Leading off the first solo album of thirteen years.

According to the preliminary end of the band in 2007 Thile first took on more solo albums, the most successful How to grow a woman from the ground (2007) establishing the Punch Brothers, led his current formation. The director Mark Meatto has documented on film this career step how to grow a band ( 2011).

The made ​​in collaboration with Yo- Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Aoife O'Donovan Goat Rodeo Sessions (2011) were awarded the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. In the same year he released an album with classical music ( Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol 1).

In March 2014, Nickel Creek reunion released their album A Dotted Line in the frame. The band had occurred in November 2013 during a promotional event for the Coen Brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis together again, has made to its soundtrack Thile a contribution.

Thile has been married since 23 December 2013, in a second marriage with actress Claire Coffee.

Awards (selection)

Discography (selection)

With Nickel Creek

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

Solo

  • Deceiver (2004)
  • How To Grow a Woman From the Ground (2006)
  • Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol 1 (2013 )

Punch Brothers

  • Punch ( 2008)
  • Antifogmatic (2010)
  • Who's Feeling Young Now? (2012)
  • Ahoy! (2012 ) EP

More

  • 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
Oceanside, California MacArthur Fellows Program Bill Monroe Extended Play Mike Marshall (musician) Bayerischer Rundfunk
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