Beth Quist-A Rare Solo Performance

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Beth returns for a rare visit to Boulder Colorado. She is beloved in her former home Boulder. Here she deeply enriched the musical culture, working on many projects with our amazing local talents in many styles of music. Her positive influence has spread throughout Colorado and the region. Her work is known throughout the world, performing with Cirque du Soleil and singer Bobby McFerrin, to name just two. It is great to have her back here for this special event. Beth does not often perform alone, so this will be a chance to see the full range of her talent as a multi-instrumentalist, and her incredible voice.

Beth Quist is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer, who began playing piano at age 2. She was lead soprano and instrumentalist for the creation band in Cirque du Soleil’s “KA”, and currently performs solo, with Sherefe which specializes in Balkan and Middle Eastern music. She has sung & toured with Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra since 1997, and appears on his albums “Circlesongs”, “Mouth Music”, and “VOCAbuLarieS”. Beth has also composed over 50 scores for dance, theater, television, & film, including musical contributions to the Emmy nominated documentary “The Two Escobars”. Other notable musical collaborations include Roger Fisher (Heart), Geoffrey Castle, & Scott Cossu (Windham Hill).

Her early musical influences were “Batman,” “Star Trek,” and “Dr. Zhivago.” “I’m a Little Leopard Prowling Around in Sneakers” was her first musical composition at age 8.

She has a 4-octave soprano voice, and plays piano, keyboards, santour (hammered dulcimer), dumbek, daff, guitar, flute, and various other toys that she can get her hands on. Her music combines influences from the Balkans, the Middle East, and India with her Western upbringing. www.bethquist.com

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