Karlin Love - EPK
Karlin Greenstreet Love Biography
Karlin Love (B.A., B.Mus., M.A., PhD) is a US-born composer and performer living in Tasmania. She moved to Australia in 1989 to take the position of woodwind lecturer at the University of Tasmania in Launceston where she taught clarinet, saxophone, guitar, theory, composition and improvisation until 1997, and taught music education (composition, music technology, guitar, and primary curriculum music). Still residing in Launceston, she is a free-lance performer on Greenwood leather instruments, guitar, and clarinets, as well composer, arranger, improvisor and teacher.
Karlin is a keen collaborator and has done numerous projects with musicians, visual artists, dancers, theatre makers and performance artists, as well as working with scientists and activists. She has made collaborative works for MOFO, JunctionArts, Ten Days on the Island, Fuse Darebin, Tamar Valley Peace, and National Folk Festivals; and created exhibition activations and performances at MONA, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston), Burnie Art Gallery, Hive Ulverstone, and Wangaratta.
Karlin aims to gently extend and expand traditional sound worlds in ensemble music-making. She has been commissioned by numerous Tasmanian and Australian performers, notably saxophonist Jabra Latham, Clarion214 clarinet quartet, lutenist Susan King, and the University of Tasmania Community Music Program. She is a fully-represented composer with the Australian Music Centre and published by Wirripang.
Her works have been recorded by Clarity clarinet quartet, The Chordwainers leather ensemble, and the University of Tasmania Wind Ensemble, and performed throughout Australia, as well as Europe, China, and North America. Improvised recorded collaborations include Colin Offord’s Time, Distance, Music; Journey into Acoustic Leather Music with The Chordwainers; and Skin Music (SCOBY and Greenwood leather) with Sonja Hindrum and Bruce Innocent.
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