Enion泭Pelta-Tiller
- Lecturer, Jazz Studies (Cross-Genre American Roots String Ensemble)
- JAZZ STUDIES
Extended-range violinist, singer/songwriter and composer Enion Pelta-Tiller is a musical free spirit who moves fluently and fluidly through jazz, bluegrass, Brazilian music and anything else she can get her hands on. A founding member of celebrated progressive folk group Taarka, with whom she has released eight studio albums, she is also in demand as an improvising fiddler by groups at forefront of the national bluegrass and jazz scenes.泭
Music has taken Pelta-Tiller all over the globe, from Amsterdams Concertgebouw to NPRs Tiny Desk in Washington, D.C., to perform with artists as diverse as Linda Ronstadt, Darol Anger, Mark OConnor, John Cowan, Patrick Bartley, Ron Miles and Sean Jones.
Pelta-Tiller is highly sought after as an educator, having been invited to teach at fiddle camps and music schools around the world including Mark OConnors Strings Conference and the Escola de Musica Folk e Tradicional in Vigo, Spain, as well as closer to home at the 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder and in Denver.
Pelta-Tiller trained classically at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and earned a BA from Johns Hopkins 勛圖厙 and an MM from the 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder. Her mentorship with fiddler Darol Anger and formative years spent playing fiddle tunes and Django jazz with her guitarist father, in addition to her classical studies, set the stage for a career that continually pushes the boundaries of genre.