Dorit Chrysler

Born in Graz, Austria, residing in New York since 1989. At age 7 singing at the Opera House Graz, founding of first band at age 13. Studies of Music Science in Vienna followed. Composer/musician Dorit Chrysler has performed the duties of vocalist, guitarist, and keyboardist, collaborating and recording with Elliott Sharp, Matt Johnson (The The), Lary Seven and Toby Dammit from Swans, Foetus aka J.G. Thirlwell, Ultra Vivid Scene and Halcion. Since 2000, Chrysler has shifted her musical emphasis to the theremin, becoming one of the instrument’s most notorious practitioners.