Biography
Liz Knowles is really a well-known American violinist. She actually is best known being a Celtic fiddler and it has toured widely because the electrifying fiddler within the Irish dance creation Riverdance. Her house condition of Kentucky contains large parts of Appalachia, where many Scots and Irish folk customs have stayed faithfully transmitted over time. However, she was interested in traditional music, training like a violinist as she was raised. She gained her level in music in the Condition University of NY Stony Brook. During NY she noticed the playing of Eileen Ivers and was entranced by Irish music, especially after she experienced performed at an Irish wedding ceremony. She analyzed with Ms. Ivers along with Brian Connolly. This resulted in her engagement from the Riverdance organization and a great many other Irish-oriented tasks, including playing the fiddle within the soundtrack from the film Michael Collins. She actually is an associate of three varied ensembles: The John Whelan Music group (an wall plug for Celtic playing), the Sirius String Quartet, as well as the Outfit Galilei. Membership within the second option group reflects the actual fact that Celtic musical customs as preserved in the us possess close links to the favorite and dance music of Britain at about enough time the initial settlers following that found its way to America. Therefore with Outfit Galilei (called following the Italian composer Vincenzo Galilei, who was simply the daddy of the fantastic astronomer Galileo) she performs music within the tradition from the Celts of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Breton, and Galicia, along with the music of Cape Breton as well as the Maritime Provinces of Canada and elements of the eastern USA. Her recordings with Outfit Galilei within the Telarc label consist of two discs, Arrive, Gentle Night time and From your Isles towards the Courts, that track the wide selection of this music. These discs consist of courtroom music, Irish tunes in Baroque-style interpretations, and dance music. She actually is the business lead designer in two single discs aswell, on Lyrichord: The Celtic Fiddle as well as the Dark Rose. On these albums she runs farther afield inside a wider variance of traditional music, including a Middle Eastern-style melody with melody exotically included in Knowles’ violin, the original Irish Uilleann pipes, as well as the Arab device the ney. Various other tracks in the Celtic Fiddle consist of music of renowned blind harpist Turlough O’Carolan in addition to less traditional shows using Calypso beats and conga drums. Knowles also constructed a number of the music in the disk. Knowles has performed on National Community Radio’s Functionality Today series along with a PBS Great Shows with Bobby McFerrin and Marcus Roberts. She performed on-camera on the music video for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. On Ryko Discs she performed on David Kincaid’s record The Irish Volunteer, and she toured using the a creation of Phantom from the Opera in Spain and Portugal. She performed in Scotland being a soloist within the Celtic Cable connections Celebration with String Sisters, and it has toured with Cherish the Females.
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Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Behind the Green Door | 1972 | Matron (as Lisa Grant) | |
Executive Wives | 1971 | Anne (as Lisa Grant) | |
Wild Riders | 1971 | Rona | |
Red Sky at Morning | 1971 | Shirley | |
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | 1971 | TV Series | Day Nurse |
The Undercover Scandals of Henry VIII | 1970 | Queen Anne Boleyn (as Elizabeth Ada) | |
Wilbur and the Baby Factory | 1970 | Mona Brigstick (as Lisa Grant) | |
The Dark Side of Tomorrow | 1970 | Mona (as Elizabeth Knowels) | |
Trader Hornee | 1970 | Tender Lee (as Lisa Grant) | |
The Master-Piece! | 1969 | Norma Sands (as Lisa Grant) | |
Two Roses and a Golden Rod | 1969 | Sheree Sudaine (as Lisa Grant) | |
Lady Godiva Rides | 1969 | Blanche | |
Dragnet 1967 | 1969 | TV Series | Marian Devon |
Garrison's Gorillas | 1967 | TV Series | Marlanne |
Dingle, Dangle | 1966 | as Lisa Grant | |
Day of the Nightmare | 1965 | Jonathan's Mother (uncredited) |
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