ANGELA MARIANI

  

Angela Mariani has written, hosted, and produced Harmonia for WFIU since 1991 locally, and 1995 nationally, drawing on commercial, private and rare archival recordings as well as interviews with performers and scholars.
Angela, a native of western Massachusetts, is a performer and scholar in the field of early music. Coming from a family of jazz and church musicians, her experience also includes many years in the worlds of rock and folk music as well. After leaving the University of Massachusetts in 19...something-or-other with a degree in music theory, she taught and performed freelance in the Boston area before striking out for the Midwest, where she earned a graduate degree at Indiana University's renowned Early Music Institute. Angela is also a founding member of the medieval ensemble Altramar.
Since fall 2000, Angela and her husband and fellow "Altramartian" Chris Smith, a musicologist and player of Irish traditional music, have lived in Lubbock, Texas (yup), where they are both members of the music faculty at Texas Tech University.