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Timbre to return to Athens to provide an emotional experience for listeners

Timbre tours with new album the blends classical and pop music in an alluring way.

Timbre Cierpke and her band are expected to enchant the Athens’ audience this Thursday night with melodic harp and vocals.

Timbre’s latest album Sun & Moon is a double disk record, with “Sun” including songs performed with her band and “Moon” featuring classical music written to be performed by an orchestra and choir. Since the album is split like this, Timbre will perform the “Sun” disk with her band.

“It takes around 80 people to perform (the “Moon”) disk,” Timbre said. “So we are going to be performing “Sun” almost in its entirety.”

Tetra Cierpke, Timbre’s younger sister, said she is a missionary as well as an artist. She has an art degree and paints portraits, and she is also part of a small business that teaches single women in Mozambique how to make jewelry. She said she also enjoys singing and playing guitar as a hobby. Tetra added she believes growing up in an artistic household and natural talent has contributed to both her and her sister’s careers.

“All of the strings and the brass and the choir that you hear, it’s all arranged by me, and I’m my own producer,” Timbre said.

Timbre said she has been writing songs and touring for 10 years, but she’s been playing piano since she was 6 years old and the harp since she was 8 years old.

“Growing up, I always loved hearing her practice,” Tetra said. “A lot of the times I knew all of her songs, I could hum them and sing them with her.”

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Tetra said at a young age their parents required Timbre to play piano before taking harp lessons, both because piano is a good beginner instrument and they were concerned about the cost of harp lessons, Tetra said.

Timbre has performed in Athens three times before and said she loves the conversations she has with people here and thinks it’s a cool town.

Tetra said she considers her sister to be a genius, both musically and mentally. She said she excelled at the harp in her first few years of learning.

Timbre said it’s often hard for people to put an exact genre to her music, but that people have described it as “neo-classical” or “chamber-rock” in the past, even though those genres are ambiguous.

“What she’s doing is particularly interesting and challenging, and I fell in love with her music when she first contacted me about working with her,” Ever Kipp, Timbre’s publicist, said.

He said a lot of other musicians try to bridge classical and pop, but Timbre is doing it more successfully.

Timbre said the responses from people who attend her shows is usually “drastic,” adding that some fans have even cried during the performance. She said she enjoys being able to give people the chance to have “a moment” while listening to her perform.

“I think (my performance) is something that gives space for listeners a chance to have a moment with beauty, a moment with stillness and have an experience that is different than just coming to a show,” Timbre said.

Tetra said the atmosphere of her sister’s shows are “epic” and “other-worldly.”

“They’re not the typical concert experience, they’re more along the lines of a Sigur Rós kind of concert,” Tetra said. “You are moved on the inside rather than maybe physically wanting to dance.”

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