Pamelia Stickney (formerly Kurstin) was born in Los Angeles, California in 1976.
Started playing piano at age 2... at age 12, she was introduced to the violin, viola, cello,
and eventually grew just tall enough to play contrabass and began her professional career as a jazz/rock musician. While she was recording with the band Geggy Tah (Luaka Bop) in 1997 her bandmates showed her the film “Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey” by Steven Martin – which inspired her to play the theremin. Pamelia's background with string instruments and as a jazz bass player influenced her signature playing techniques, expanding the expressive possibilities of the instrument as displayed in her TED TALK (online). In 2003 she began to perform her solo “theremin orchestral” pieces in which she composes and/or improvises using looping pedals, which led to her debut solo album “Thinking Out Loud” released on John Zorn's Tzadik label in 2007.
In 2005 she moved to Vienna and since then has collaborated with local artists Otto Lechner, Anne Bennent, recorded an album together with Seb Rochford “Ouch Evil Slow Hop” (slowfoot, UK), cofounded and extensively tours with Blueblut releasing “Hurts So Gut” in 2014 followed by “Butt Butt” this year, and continues to get classical yayas out as an invited guest soloist with ensembles such as Cape Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Kontrapunkt of Vienna Musikverein, Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert.
