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Zeena Parkins

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American musician

United StatesMusiciansBorn 1956 · age 70
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Zeena Parkins is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp". Parkins performs on standard harps, several custom electric harps, piano, and accordion.

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2019Guggenheim Fellowship

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Zeena Parkins is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp". Parkins performs on standard harps, several custom electric harps, piano, and accordion. She was a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and professor in the Music Department at Mills College.

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United States
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Musicians
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living
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Born 1956 · age 70
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