Quentin Walston is a pianist, composer, and educator living in Loudoun County, Virginia. He studied jazz, piano, and composition/arranging at James Madison University. GO DUKES! Focusing on improvisation, composition, and arranging, his musical style blends stride, blues, bebop, and contemporary approaches.  His compositions and arrangements range from solo piano to big band. Quentin has played in and started numerous bands including Grooveyard, The Green Chimneys, Voyage, and Sweet Something. Quentin’s current duo, trio, and quartet groups are exciting laboratories for new compositions, arrangements, and spontaneity which represent his musical influences and direction.

Quentin was awarded the Loudoun Arts COLLAB Artist Residency in which he composed “Loudoun Pastorale”, a suite for Classical instruments which was inspired by artwork of his local countryside.  Instrumentation includes piano, cello, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon. He completed the residency in March of 2020. Selected recordings from the suite can be heard on YouTube.

Quentin Walston can be heard performing solo, in his own bands, and as the pianist of Sweet Something in the Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland.  In addition to performing, Quentin also teaches at The Catoctin School of Music in Leesburg, Virginia. 

Listen to Quentin’s music and find merch at:

https://quentinwalston.bandcamp.com/releases

To follow Quentin Walston’s performances and news, also visit:

https://www.facebook.com/QuentinWalston/

Connect/listen to Frame This:

https://linktr.ee/framethispodcast

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