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Childbloom Student Performance Groups
Click Here for a recording of the Bella Corda Quartet playing a new piece "Techno" from this year's Missoula First Night Performance.
The Missoula Bella Corda Guitar Quartet, made up of teenage Childbloom Guitar Program students Duggan Backhouse-Prentiss, Arthur Befumo, and sisters Jaymi and Jenna Wevers, play a dynamic mixture of classical, jazz, and world music. The group moves smoothly from Bach to Bossa Nova, playing beautiful and complex instrumental arrangements of both modern and classical music with a sensitivity, confidence, and nuanced technique that is surprising for a group of such young musicians. The quartet members are all students at the Missoula Childbloom Guitar Program, and have been studying guitar individually and in ensemble for the last 6 years with Program Director and Instructor Nathan Zavalney.
A Childbloom Guitar Quartet performance spans the globe and swims the depths of musical history. Their repertoire includes arrangements of Afro-Pop, Flamenco, 13th-19th century classical and folk music, swing-era jazz, complex Middle Eastern melodies, and Brazillian Bossa Nova. The group has performed on Montana Public Radio, at Out To Lunch, the Big Sky Film Festival, Kidapalooza, Kid's Fest, the River City Roots Festival, the Missoula Art Museum, benefit events for Clark Fork school and several other non-profit organizations, along with performances at the Clark Fork River Market and First Friday events.
The quartet is currently working on CD project of their current repertoire/
Click Here for a recent recording by the quartet of "Saturn Return" written by Childbloom Director Nathan Zavalney
Click Here for a recent recording by the quartet of an arrangement of "Mouna Bowe", a song written by French jazz violinist Jean Luc Ponty.
This is a video montage from a November 2010 performance by the Missoula Chilbloom Guitar Quartet. It includes Gabriel Faures "Dolly Suite", and arrangements of an Afro Pop song and a Neuvo Flamenco tune.
The quartet will be performing at Out To Lunch in Caras Park during the noon hour on Wedensday June 22nd, and at the Missoula Marathon Expo on Saturday July 9th (time TBA).
Below is a video of the Childbloom Student Guitar Ensemble playing "The Mermaid". The members of the ensemble are Aiden Courtney, Riley Nielsen, Conner and Devin McCamant, Kylie Hoedel, and Evan Griffiths.
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