joan jeanrenaud
composer
strange toys, small varitations
JOAN JEANRENAUD (Cellist/Composer) grew up in a small town outside Memphis, Tennessee and began studying the cello at age eleven. Following music studies at Indiana University with Fritz Magg and private instruction with Pierre Fournier, Jeanrenaud joined the Kronos Quartet. For two decades she worked with Kronos and hundreds of composers and musicians from John Cage to Frank Zappa. With them she performed over 2,000 concerts and released thirty recordings. In 1999 she began her pursuit of solo and collaborative projects in composition, improvisation, electronics, and multi-disciplinary performance. She has completed more than 35 compositions for cello and small ensembles many of these multi-media works. Recently her installation work ‘ARIA’ with collaborator Alessandro Moruzzi premiered at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, her CD, ‘Strange Toys’, released on the Talking House label in 2008 was nominated for a Grammy and her most recent release, ‘Pop-Pop’, appears on her new record label Deconet Records. Go to www.deconetrecords.com and www.jjcello.org for more information.
composer
strange toys, small varitations
JOAN JEANRENAUD (Cellist/Composer) grew up in a small town outside Memphis, Tennessee and began studying the cello at age eleven. Following music studies at Indiana University with Fritz Magg and private instruction with Pierre Fournier, Jeanrenaud joined the Kronos Quartet. For two decades she worked with Kronos and hundreds of composers and musicians from John Cage to Frank Zappa. With them she performed over 2,000 concerts and released thirty recordings. In 1999 she began her pursuit of solo and collaborative projects in composition, improvisation, electronics, and multi-disciplinary performance. She has completed more than 35 compositions for cello and small ensembles many of these multi-media works. Recently her installation work ‘ARIA’ with collaborator Alessandro Moruzzi premiered at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, her CD, ‘Strange Toys’, released on the Talking House label in 2008 was nominated for a Grammy and her most recent release, ‘Pop-Pop’, appears on her new record label Deconet Records. Go to www.deconetrecords.com and www.jjcello.org for more information.