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Meike Holzmann first started making music
with the Glockenspiel at the early age of four during early years music
lessons.
While being classically trained on the piano for many years, she also
took trumpet and double bass lessons, sang in the school choir and was
generally keen on making noises.
Soon she started to make up her own little tunes and began to teach herself
any musical instrument she could get her hands on.
Her experiences as a musical performer include keyboards, percussions
and backing vocals for German newcomer award winning German band RICH,
NICE $ FABULOUS, playing bass in a number of blues and pop groups, as
well as singing backing vocals in soul and rock bands.
Meike also spent five years with the ABKLATSCHTHEATER in Aschaffenburg,
impersonating around 50 different characters in five eye watering comedy
productions.
In 1998 Meike came to Liverpool to study Performing Arts/Music @ LIPA
, where she most enjoyed the songwriting and composition classes. This
was made possible only by the sponsorship of DEUTSCHE PHONO AKADEMIE (Hamburg),
and Josef Keller Verlag (Starnberg/Munich) who issues "Der Musikmarkt".In
her final year @ LIPA Meike specialized in composition and arrangement
for moving images and started working internationally with independent
film makers and dance companies.
Since receiving her degree (BA hons) in Performing Arts (Music) in July
2001 she has been writing, performing, arranging and producing music for
film, dance, theatre and multimedia from her Mac/logic based home studio
in Liverpool/UK as well as steadily writing songs, by herself as well
in collaboration within established co-writing partnerships.
She's also been performing and recording keys, percussions, bass, guitar,
blues harpand backing vocals for SONNENBERG (album out on Rough Trade).In
the last few years Meike's been writing, recording and playing live with
THE PHENOMENOLOGISTS and, on rare occasions, also performing her own songs
with the FLYING BINGO WINGS in Germany.
Meike has also been involved in educational and community work in Liverpool
and Germany - after training with MUSIC LEADER North West and Creative
Partnerships during 2007 as a Creative Practitioner, she worked as a Performing
Arts Animateur at Malbank School and Sixth Form College in Nantwich, Cheshire,
has been a vocal and stage coach for LIPA students, as well as teaching
piano in Liverpool and running MICA MUSIC, delivering music workshops
in a variety of settings and providing demo services to singer/songwriters.
In 2009 the LONESOME GEORGINAS were born, giving their live debut on St
Patricks day and continue to perform as an acoustic trio around Liverpool
and the North of England. They produced a CD with six of their catchy
tunes, which is only available at live gigs. |