ZOË KEATING - CANADA
BORN 2 FEBRUARY A cellist since the age of eight, Keating pursued electronic music and contemporary composition as part of her Liberal Arts studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. After graduation she moved to San Francisco and fell in love with the startup culture of the late 1990's, building a career as an information architect and data analyst while moonlighting as a cellist in rock bands. Keating eventually combined her love of music and technology, using a computer to live-layer her cello and performing for late-night after-parties in her San Francisco warehouse.
She is known for both her use of technology - which she uses to sample her cello onstage - and for her DIY approach, releasing her music online without the help of a record label.
Keating composes for TV, film and dance and her songs are used as bumper music for NPR’s Morning Edition, the theme music to other radio shows, as the thinking-music of the Sherlock Holmes character on CBS Elementary and in countless documentaries. However, she has discovered that her music has achieved a surprising degree of ubiquity for a DIY artist, appearing at last-count in over 20,000 videos uploaded to Youtube, of everything from dance performances, to films, plays, live paintings, video gaming soundtracks and wedding processionals. Her advocacy for DIY artists stems, in part, from her efforts to obtain some income from these unofficial uses while at the same time allowing people to use her music in their own artistic expression.
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Escape Artist by Zoë Keating
ISABELLA COLBRAN - SPAIN
BORN 2 FEBRUARY
Isabella Angela Colbran was a Spanish opera singer known in her native country as Isabel Colbrandt. Many sources note her as a dramatic coloratura soprano but some believe that she was a mezzo-soprano with a high extension, a soprano sfogato. She collaborated with opera composer Gioachino Rossini in the creation of a number of roles that remain in the repertory to this day; they were married on 22 March 1822.
Colbran composed four song collections; they were dedicated to the Empress of Russia; to her teacher, Crescenti; to the Queen of Spain; and to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais.
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