Pamela Z:  

If you want to get in touch with me, please visit my web site pamelaz.com or my Facebook page (facebook/pamelazed). Alternatively, simply Google "Pamela Z" and you will be pointed to all kinds of current info on me.I don't keep up with this Classmates site and haven't updated it since 2004. Cheers! Here i’s the old info on me: 2004 has been a very productive and fortunate year for me. My solo Cd “A Delay is Better” was released on the Starkland label, I was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition, and I had sound and performance works presented at the Dak’Art Biennale in Senegal. I also had the New York premiere of my muliti-media performance work “Voci”. I received an unprecedented amount of press related to that performance including reviews in the New York Times and the Village Voice, an illustration in the New Yorker, and ariticles in Time Out and New York Magazine. You can see links to all of these articles by going to the press page on my website (pamelaz.com). A brief history of how I got from there to here: After graduating from Ranum High School in 1974, I studied music at CU Boulder while moonlighting as a singer/songwriter playing in Colorado nightclubs, coffeehouses. I got my music degree from CU in 1978 and continued living in Boulder playing music until 1984. In the early 1980’s I began incorporating electronics into my music performance and began gravitating toward the avant-garde music. I moved to San Francisco in October of 1984 where I found a remarkable community of composers, performance artists, experimental theatre, dance and interdisciplinary artists. I changed my name to Pamela Z and began creating a body of work in the electroacoustic music and performance and I remain in San Francisco to this day. The arts– specifically music and performance– have remained my life’s work, and voice is still central for me. I create performance works using voice and electronics. My base is San Francisco, where I have a live/work studio in an artist building, but go to New York frequently and have become increasingly bi-coastal in recent years. I have toured extensively throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Japan. I still return to Colorado each year during the holidays to visit my mother and sisters in Golden and Evergreen, and I always make it a point to visit the Denver Art Museum or the small galleries and performance venues or to take a walk on the Boulder Mall. Occasionally I run into old school friends like Nancy Hampton (now Jewell) or LaRonna Hamilton (now DeBraak). I didn’t have children, like many of you have done. I guess I’ve been too centered on my work for that, and the men I’ve had in my life have always been the same way! But I marvel when I hear about or meet the adult children of old schoolmates, and I’m reminded of my age! For fun and for my work I spend a lot of time playing with computers. I’ve been a died-in-the-wool Mac user since my first computer (a Mac Plus!) in the late ‘80s I waste hours on email, my website, ...Expand for more