Ysanne Spevack
| Ysanne Spevack | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 June 1972 London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Violinist composer arranger conductor |
Ysanne Spevack (born 24 June 1972) is a British violinist, composer, conductor and arranger best known for her work recordings for the Smashing Pumpkins, Dub Gabriel featuring Michael Stipe, Tiesto, and Asian Dub Foundation. She was born a British citizen, but moved to the United States of America in 2004.
She lives in Los Angeles, where she has shaped a career arranging strings and playing acoustic and electric violin, and composing original music for soundtracks, notably for the BBC and Channel 4. Her performance and arranging work touches upon several genres, including orchestral, rock music, pop music, world music, and film scores.
Her most recent album is entitled Soundzero, and is a collaboration with Philip Clemo.
Ysanne Spevack was raised in London, where she studied piano, violin and guitar. Her great uncle, Edward Summers, was a professional violinist who played for silent movies, and her cousin is classical violinist Geoffrey Trabichoff, formerly leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She began touring Europe aged 13, playing classical repertoire including Mozart, Vivaldi and Haydn.
After studying CuBase and Music Technology at Community Music school, with teachers Aniruddha Das and Steve Chandra Savale, she travelled to Northern India, studying classical Indian music and sitar in the city of Varanasi. In 1995, Spevack began to play electric violin with electronics for many producers and DJs in the underground Acid House, Techno and Drum and Bass music scenes of London, notably with Sister Bliss from Faithless, Tiesto, Talvin Singh, T Power and Tsuyoshi Suzuki.
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