Nora Thiele is highly regarded as one of the leading and most innovative exponents of frame drums and historical percussion. She is renowned for her irresistible sound, thrilling performance and empathetic teaching. Nora is a musician who moves fluidly between early music, world music, jazz and improvisation, performing a repertoire that encompasses traditional, experimental and classical music in equal measure. Her musical work is concerned above all with sounding out the intersections, boundaries and connections among genres, epochs and cultures. Resident in Berlin, Nora has given concerts in Europe, the Middle East and China, both as a soloist and with her collaborative projects: Duo Alkhayyat/Thiele (performing Iraqi Maqam), The Playfords (early music folk), Ensemble Nu:N (music of the Middle Ages and world jazz), Duo Zenker/Thiele (world jazz), Duo Sasoon/Thiele (female minimal jazz beat) and Simkhat Hanefesh (early Yiddish songs).