Carla Kihlstedt

Carla Kihlstedt is an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

She is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio (now renamed Tin Hat), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Book of Knots and Causing a Tiger. Other musical projects include 2 Foot Yard, Charming Hostess and Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii. She has also worked occasionally on projects with Tom Waits and Fred Frith, and recorded numerous albums as a guest or session musician. Kihlstedt has studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Discography

 * Charming Hostess
 * 1999 – Eat
 * 2004 – Sarajevo Blues
 * 2005 – Punch


 * Tin Hat
 * 1999 – Memory Is an Elephant
 * 2000 – Helium
 * 2002 – The Rodeo Eroded
 * 2004 – Book of Silk
 * 2007 – The Sad Machinery of Spring
 * 2010 – Foreign Legion
 * 2012 – The Rain is a Handsome Animal


 * Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
 * 2001 – Grand Opening and Closing
 * 2003 – Live
 * 2004 – Of Natural History
 * 2005 – The Face (DVD with Shinichi Momo Koga)
 * 2007 – In Glorious Times


 * 2 Foot Yard
 * 2003 – 2 Foot Yard
 * 2008 – Borrowed Arms


 * Leslie Dalaba, Fred Frith, Eric Glick Rieman & Carla Kihlstedt
 * 2003 – Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlstedt


 * The Book of Knots
 * 2004 – The Book of Knots
 * 2007 – Traineater
 * 2011 – Garden of Fainting Stars


 * Carla Kihlstedt & Shahzad Ismaily
 * 2004 – Flying Low


 * Carla Kihlstedt, Fred Frith & Stevie Wishart
 * 2005 – The Compass, Log and Lead


 * Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii
 * 2007 – Minamo
 * 2009 – Kuroi Kawa ~ Black River


 * Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi & Dan Rathbun
 * 2008 – Ravish and Other Tales for the Stage


 * Cheer-Accident
 * 2009 – Fear Draws Misfortune


 * Cosa Brava
 * 2010 – Ragged Atlas
 * 2012 – The Letter


 * Causing a Tiger
 * 2010 – Causing a Tiger
 * 2011 – How We Held Our Post


 * Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi
 * 2011 – Still You Lay Dreaming- Tales for the Stage, II


 * As a guest or session musician
 * 1998 – 12 Minor – Ben Goldberg
 * 1999 – Half-wit Anthems – Deadweight
 * 1999 – California – Mr. Bungle
 * 1999 – Blue – Third Eye Blind
 * 1999 – Pokey in the Bobo – Baby Snufkin
 * 2000 – ''American Pi – Austin Willacy
 * 2001 – This Ungodly Hour – Mumble & Peg
 * 2002 – Alice – Tom Waits
 * 2002 – Trilectic – Jewlia Eisenberg
 * 2003 – Rybi Tuk – Už Jsme Doma
 * 2004 – I'm Gonna Stop Killing – Carla Bozulich
 * 2004 – Timelines – Lesli Dalaba
 * 2005 – Tommyland: The Ride – Tommy Lee
 * 2005 – Love Songs – Peter Garland
 * 2006 – There Be Squabbles Ahead – Stolen Babies
 * 2006 – The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact – Ben Goldberg
 * 2006 – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards – Tom Waits
 * 2007 – The Happy End Problem – Fred Frith
 * 2007 – A Distant Youth – Wu Fei
 * 2007 – A Handful of World; Kafka Songs – Lisa Bielawa
 * 2007 – Two Rooms of Uranium Inside 83 Markers – Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra!
 * 2008 – Unsquare – Maybe Monday
 * 2008 – Diana and James – Greg Copeland
 * 2009 – Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air – Fred Frith
 * 2010 – Eye to Ear III – Fred Frith