Annie Gårlid

Annie Gårlid grew up in New England and lives in Berlin, Germany. She studied literature at Smith College, viola performance at New England Conservatory, early music at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, and ensemble singing at the Schola Cantorum in Basel.

As a viola player and singer, she is most interested in very old and very new forms of musical innovation as well as in music’s recontextualization and intersection with other media. She works and has worked together with a number of young composers and artists, including Holly Herndon, Caterina Barbieri, Emptyset, Cat Lamb, Nile Koetting, Marc Sabat, Bill Kouligas, Max Murray, Martin Hiendl, Rishin Singh, Cat Hope, and Henry Andersen. She plays and sings with De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, the Nederlandse Bach