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Citation style|date=September 2009Infobox musical artist|name = Chris Thile|image = christhile.jpg|caption =|image_size = 250|background = solo_singer|birth_name =|alias =|birth_date = birth date and age|1981|2|20|birth_place = Oceanside, California|Oceanside , California , United States http://www.ibluegrass.com/bg_posting3.CFM? p i=426& p r=& p a=inter "Chris Thile: Covering the Bases". iBluegrass.com. May 20, 1999. Retrieved August 30, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20050514042745/ http://www.aetn.org/aetnpresents/meyerandthile.html "AETN Presents: Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile". AETN . May 14, 2005. Retrieved March 2, 2008. |death_date =|origin = United States|instrument = Mandolin , bouzouki , mandola , banjo , guitar , tenor guitar , Drum kit|drums , sitar , piano , violin , viola , cello , double bass , vocals |genre = Bluegrass music|Bluegrass , progressive bluegrass , Folk music|folk , Country music|country , Classical music|classical , jazz |occupation = Musician , singer-songwriter |years_active = 1994–present|label = Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass)|Sugar Hill (1994& ndash;2007) Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch (2007& ndash;Present)|associated_acts = Nickel Creek , Punch Brothers , Mutual Admiration Society (collaboration)|Mutual Admiration Society , Mike Marshall (bluegrass musician)|Mike Marshall , Edgar Meyer , The Goat Rodeo Sessions |website = http://www.christhile.com christhile.com|current_members =|past_members =|notable_instruments = Gibson Lloyd Loar F5 Mandolin (serial number 75316), http://www.mandolinarchive.com/perl/show_mando.pl? 3630 Lynn Dudenbostel F5 Mandolin #5 and #14, http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_00477.shtml "Mandolin 10 Questions - Chris Thile - Interview". Mandolin Café . October 26, 2006. Retrieved March 16, 2008. Lawrence Smart mandola , Flatiron bouzouki Christopher Scott Thile (IPAc-en|icon|'|?|i?|l|i?respell|THEE|lee; born February 20, 1981) is an United States|American musician, best known as the mandolin ist and a singer for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek .Allmusic|class=artist|id=p202193|pure_url=yes allmusic ((( Chris Thile > Overview ))) http://www.waynerice.com/bgbios/index.htm Bluegrass Bios
Biography
The three members of Nickel Creek met in Carlsbad, California at That Pizza Place in 1989, listening to weekly bluegrass shows with their parents. Soon they were taking lessons and then playing festivals, and even recording album s. Their first, Little Cowpoke , was released in 1994. Nickel Creek has gone on to record several more albums, including their self-titled debut album and This Side , which went platinum and won a Grammy Awards of 2003#Folk|Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. In 2005, Nickel Creek released Why Should the Fire Die? , which received massive critical acclaim and sold 250,000 units.
Thile has released other solo albums, including Not All Who Wander Are Lost (album)| Not All Who Wander Are Lost , released in 2001, and Deceiver (Chris Thile album)| Deceiver in 2004 (in which he wrote, composed, sang, and played every part). In 2008, Thile released a collaboration album with bassist Edgar Meyer , and also plans to release a collaborative album with Hilary Hahn .cite web | url = http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_8401_ma.html? selecteddate=03172007#0 | title = Tensions Mountain Boys at Carnegie Hall | publisher = Carnegie Hall | date = 2007-03-17 | accessdate = 2007-08-30cite web | url = http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php? id=15490 | title = Nonesuch Records Signs Singer/Composer/Mandolinist Chris Thile and His New Band, Punch Brothers | publisher = All About Jazz | date = 2007-10-09 | accessdate = 2007-10-10
History
1981-1999: Early life and career
Thile was born in Oceanside, California in 1981. His earliest memories of music are listening to Stan Getz 's recording of "The Girl from Ipanema" before he even turned one year old. When he was two, his family started going to That Pizza Place , where he listened to John Moore's band Bluegrass Etc. When Thile was four, his family moved to Idyllwild, California .
Thile began playing the mandolin at the age of five, taking occasional lessons from John Moore. At age eight, Thile's family and the Watkins family formed Nickel Creek . The band performed at many California bluegrass festivals, and as a result Chris had to be home-schooled. At age twelve, he won the national mandolin championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas .
That same year, 1993, Thile made a demo tape and sent it to the Sugar Hill and Rounder record labels. Both labels showed interest, but the Thiles went with Sugar Hill.cite web | url = http://www.ibluegrass.com/bg_posting3.CFM? p i=426& p r=& p a=inter | title = Chris Thile: Covering the Bases | publisher = iBluegrass.com | date = 1999-05-20 | accessdate = 2007-08-30 The next year Chris Thile released his first solo album, Leading Off , featuring mostly original compositions.
In 1995, the Thile family moved to Murray, Kentucky where Chris' father Scott Thile accepted a position at Murray State University as a musical instrument technician. http://www.waynerice.com/bgbios/bgbiosn.htm http://campus.murraystate.edu/staff/scott.thile/index.html In 1997, Chris released Stealing Second and Nickel Creek released Here to There . Chris went on to attend Murray State University for a few semesters, where he was a music major. http://www.ibluegrass.com/bg_posting3.CFM? p i=426& p r=& p a=inter
2000-2005: Wander and Deceiver
Main|Not All Who Wander Are Lost (album)|Deceiver (Chris Thile album)Following the major success and platinum accreditation of the album Nickel Creek (album)|Nickel Creek , Thile released Not All Who Wander Are Lost (album)|Not All Who Wander Are Lost in 2001. The album featured guest appearances from several well-known instrumentalists such as Stuart Duncan, Béla Fleck , Edgar Meyer , Jerry Douglas , and Bryan Sutton .
In 2003, Thile teamed up with mandolinist Mike Marshall (bluegrass musician)|Mike Marshall for the duet album Into the Cauldron, which included original pieces as well as pieces by Charlie Parker and J. S. Bach . Also in 2003, Thile joined Mark O'Connor for his double CD set "Thirty-Year Retrospective" which was nominated for a Grammy. In 2004, Thile released Deceiver (Chris Thile album)|Deceiver , an experimental album on which he recorded every track himself. This included electric guitar, piano, drums, violin, viola, cello, and bass. Deceiver demonstrated some pop/rock songwriting in addition to "newgrass."
2006-Present: Punch Brothers and Edgar Meyer project
Main|How to Grow a Woman from the Ground|Punch (album)In August 2006, Nickel Creek announced that at the end of the year they would no longer be recording together as a group, and their tour scheduled through 2007 would be their last for an indefinite period of time.cn|date=April 2012 Thile was a judge for the fifth annual The Independent Music Awards|Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers. http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima_new/pastjudges.asp Independent Music Awards - Past Judges
In 2006, Thile formed the Punch Brothers|How to Grow a Band , with whom he recorded How to Grow a Woman from the Ground , Thile's fifth album. In an interview with the Nashville City Paper , Thile described the formation of the band: quote|We got together one night just to drop a ton of money, drink too much wine, eat steaks, and commiserate about our failed relationships. We had gotten to play together a few days before and we had said that we needed to do something musical together. With our hearts smashed to pieces, it became more urgent — our lives had gone the same way for so long. I knew I wanted to have a band with Gabe Witcher, but I didn’t know if it would be a rock ensemble, an ambitious acoustic classical thing or a bluegrass group. We played, and there was a serious, instantaneous connection. Then I knew I wanted to put together a bluegrass band — one with a lot of range, but aesthetically a bluegrass band.cite web | url = http://nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm? section=12& screen=news& news_id=51705 | title = Nickel Creek’s Thile ‘grows’ a new band | publisher = Nashville City Paper | date = 2006-08-23 | accessdate = 2007-10-13 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060826212803/ http://nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm? section=12& screen=news& news_id=51705 |archivedate = 2006-08-26 The band consisted of Chris Thile (mandolin), Gabe Witcher (fiddle/violin), Chris Eldridge (guitar), Greg Garrison (bass), and Noam Pikelny (banjo). Bryan Sutton has also filled in on guitar when necessary while Eldridge played out commitments to The Infamous Stringdusters. In 2007, the band officially changed its name first to "The Tensions Mountain Boys" and then " Punch Brothers ."
On March 17, 2007, at Carnegie Hall , this group debuted Thile's ambitious "The Blind Leaving the Blind", a 40-minute suite in four movements that Thile saidwhere|date=April 2012 was written in part to deal with his 2004 divorce.
Punch Brothers released its first album, Punch (album)|Punch , February 26, 2008, on Nonesuch Records . The album featured Thile's suite "The Blind Leaving the Blind", as well as other original songs.
To promote Punch , Thile and Punch Brothers planned a year-long tour in 2008, as well as a February 29 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992 TV series)|The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/calendar/02252008.shtml "Show Calendar: Week of February 25 - February 29". NBC . Retrieved February 24, 2008. In late 2008, Paul Kowert replaced Garrison on bass. Punch Brothers released Antifogmatic (album)|Antifogmatic on February 15, 2010, and continued to tour. On November 5, 2010, the band performed "Rye Whiskey" on The Late Show With David Letterman with Steve Martin guesting on banjo.
In August 2008, Thile and double bass|bassist Edgar Meyer announced the release date of the duo's planned debut album. The album was released on Thile's label Nonesuch Records on September 23, 2008. http://nonesuch.com/journal/chris-thile-edgar-meyer-preview-new-album-at-aspen Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer Preview New Album at Aspen". Nonesuch Records . August 13, 2008 . August 18, 2008. Commenting on the collaboration, Thile said "Edgar is one of the biggest influences on my musical life, and now I’m in a duo with him and writing songs with him. This was my dream. I always wondered what it would be like to be playing music this hard." http://nonesuch.com/albums/edgar-meyer-and-chris-thile "Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile | Nonesuch Records". Nonesuch Records . Retrieved August 18, 2008. The duo toured in September and October 2008 to promote the album.
Side projects
Thile is featured in the documentary film|documentary Bluegrass Journey , along with the rest of Nickel Creek. He has also appeared on a number of other artists' recordings, including Béla Fleck 's Perpetual Motion (album)|Perpetual Motion , playing arrangements of Baroque, Impressionist, Classical and other styles of music with Fleck and Edgar Meyer, the CD "Jam Session" with Mark O'Connor Frank Vignola Bryan Sutton and Jon Burr, the Dixie Chicks ' Home , Kate Rusby 's Awkward Annie , Julie Fowlis ' Cuilidh , Dolly Parton 's Little Sparrow , Dierks Bentley's Up on the Ridge , and Sarah Jarosz's Follow Me Down .
Thile has performed as a duo with guitarist and vocalist and Michael Daves since 2005.cite web|last=Klein|first=Bradley|title=Chris Thile and Michael Daves Interview|url= http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_001351.shtml|publisher=Mandolin Cafe|accessdate=May 9, 2011 They released their debut album "Sleep With One Eye Open" on May 10, 2011. Recorded at Jack White (musician)|Jack White 's studio, the album consists of 16 classic bluegrass duets. Jack White also produced and played on the duo's 7" vinyl record "Man in the Middle" on Third Man Records . Thile and Daves met in 2005 at a bluegrass jam at NYC's Baggot Inn.
In 2009 Thile completed a mandolin concerto entitled Ad astra per alas porci . The work was commissioned by a consortium of orchestras including the Colorado Symphony Orchestra , Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra , Oregon Symphony , Alabama Symphony Orchestra , Winston-Salem Symphony , Delaware Symphony Orchestra , Portland Symphony Orchestra , and Interlochen Center for the Arts . Thile performed the world premiere of the first movement with the Interlochen Arts Camp World Youth Symphony Orchestra under director Jung-Ho Pak , and premiered his entire concerto with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 17, 2009. http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/chris-thile-premieres-his-mandolin-concerto-with-colorado-symphony-2009-09-16 http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/oregonian-chris-thile-reinvents-his-instrument-with-mandolin-concerto-2009-09-29 http://www.bluegrassjournal.com/2009/09/01/chris-thile-composes-mandolin-concerto/ http://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20099/10496/
In 2011 he recorded The Goat Rodeo Sessions with cellist Yo-Yo Ma , bassist Edgar Meyer and fiddle player Stuart Duncan . http://www.yo-yoma.com/music/goat-rodeo-sessions On October 25, 2011 he appeared on the Jay Leno show as a member of the Yo-Yo Ma and Friends musical act. http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/episode-guide/
Awards and nominations
1997 - Won Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe
1997 - Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for "Scotland" from True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe
1997 - IBMA award for Album of the Year for True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe
2001 - IBMA award for Mandolinist of the Year
2002 - Won Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for "This Side" (with Nickel Creek )
2005 - Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Deceiver (Chris Thile album)|Deceiver
2006 - Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for "The Eleventh Reel"
2007 - BBC 's Folk Musician of the Year
2007 - Nominated for IBMA Mandolinist of the Year
2008 - Nominated for Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year
Discography
Solo
Title
Album details
Peak chart positions
US Grass
US Country
US Indie
US Heat
Leading Off
Release date: September 25, 1994
Label: Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass)|Sugar Hill Records
Sleep with One Eye Openhttp:/ / www.nonesuch.com/ journal/ mandolinist-chris-thile-bluegrass-guitarist-michael-daves-nonesuch-release-sleep-with-one-eye-open-may-10-2011-03-02 (with Michael Daves)
Release date: May 10, 2011
Label: Nonesuch Records
The Goat Rodeo Sessions http:/ / www.amazon.com/ Goat-Rodeo-Sessions-Yo-Yo-Ma/ dp/ B005G5NPIS (with Yo-Yo Ma , Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan )
Release date: October 24, 2011
Label: Sony Masterworks
The Goat Rodeo Sessions: Live EP
Release date: February 7, 2012
Label: Sony Masterworks
"—" denotes releases that did not chart
Nickel Creek
Main|Nickel Creek discography
Punch Brothers
2008: Punch (album)|Punch
2010: Antifogmatic (album)|Antifogmatic
2012: '' Who's Feeling Young Now?
Mutual Admiration Society
2004 Mutual Admiration Society (album)|Mutual Admiration Society ( Nickel Creek and Glen Phillips )
http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_001351.shtml Chris Thile and Michael Daves Interview Pt I
MySpace|nickelcreek|Nickel Creek
MySpace|punchbrothers|Punch Brothers
MySpace|thetensionsmountainboys|The Tensions Mountain Boys
MySpace|christhile|How to Grow A Band
http://telluride.plumtv.com/videos/our_grass_blue Chris Thile and the Punch Brothers at Telluride Bluegrass Festival
http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp? storyID=9068 How to Grow A Woman from the Ground Review on JamBase.com
http://cornellsun.com/node/21197 Chris Thile Interview and Feature Article
http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_00477.shtml 10 Questions For Chris Thile Interview
http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx? id=5811 NewMusicBox cover: Chris Thile in conversation with Frank J. Oteri, October 27, 2008 (includes video)
http://www.laco.org/artists/357/ Chris Thile Bio
Multimedia
http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp Listen and/or watch Chris Thile on 5 episodes of the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour : #165 as a member of Nickel Creek ; #199 Chris Thile with Bryan Sutton ; #287 Chris Thile and Mike Marshall (musician)|Mike Marshall , another master of the mandolin; #416 Chris Thile and the How To Grow a Band, #506 Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
nickelcreekpunchbrothers Persondata| NAME =Thile, Chris | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American musician | DATE OF BIRTH =February 20, 1981 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Oceanside, California , United States | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Thile, Chris Category:Nickel Creek members Category:American bluegrass musicians Category:American singer-songwriters Category:American banjoists Category:American guitarists Category:American mandolinists Category:People from San Diego County, California Category:Living people Category:Murray State University alumni Category:1981 births
