Shulamit Kleinerman
specializes in off-shoulder technique on early violin and medieval vielle. She studied baroque violin in London with
Monica Huggett on a Hertz Fellowship awarded by the University of California, Berkeley, after graduating in 1999 with a double major
in English and music. Living in Seattle since 2000, she is a founding member of the Elizabethan quartet Plaine & Easie -- winner of the 2009
Early Music America Medieval and Renaissance competition -- and the medieval/traditional vielle duo Cinnamon Bird. Her 2008 CD of
seventeenth-century English country dances in original duo arrangements, New New Nothing, was produced with an artist residency at
Jack Straw Productions. Shula maintains a full private studio of modern violin and early-instrument students and is the founder and director
of Seattle Historical Arts for Kids, which in 2010 released its innovative first CD, Merry it is!, featuring early music sung by and
for children.