Damon Zick / Quarteto Nuevo
Los Angeles, CA
Grant amount: $15,000
Performances
Mission Valley Live. Polson, MT. 9/24/2021
Alpine Artisans. Seeley Lake, MT. 9/26/2021
The Stave & Hoop. Missoula, MT. 9/27/2021
The Alberta Bair Theater. Billings, MT. 10/1/2021
About the Artist
Winners of the Beverly Hills National Auditions, Quarteto Nuevo’s master musicians create emotionally charged soundscapes with instruments and sensibilities that represent very different world cultures. Their unique instrumentation - soprano saxophone/woodwinds (Damon Zick), cello (Jacob Szekely), guitar (Kenton Youngstrom), and hand percussion (Felipe Fraga) - richly colors their wide-ranging repertoire, from Egberto Gismonti's "Cego Aderaldo" and Chick Corea's "Children's Song No. 6" to Milcho Leviev's "Women's Dance" and original works "Hector, Desmond, and Titus", "Rain Song" and "Dizer O Que". Quarteto Nuevo has performed for sold-out audiences throughout the west coast of the U.S. and Canada.
Saxophonist Damon Zick has been featured at the Reno Jazz Festival, Bakersfield Jazz Festival, and UW Eau Claire Jazz Festival. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Santa Barbara Symphony and was featured on Los Angeles Opera's Grammy-winning recording of Kurt Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny. He is on the faculty at CSU Fullerton.
Cellist Jacob Szekely is a co-founder of String Project Los Angeles, an improvisation school named by Strings Magazine as "One of the top 10 reasons to study music in Los Angeles".
Guitarist Kenton Youngstrom has led an international jazz big band (Cannes Film Festival), and played with the Margo Rey rock group. He is on the faculties of the Colburn School, Pepperdine University, and Pasadena City College.
Percussionist/drummer Felipe Fraga performs with jazz groups in Los Angeles and Chicago and has done studio work for McDonald's and Nestlé, Oprah, Disney's Viva Navidad! and the movie soundtrack to Rio 2. His workshop - International Hybrid - done in Portugal and Brazil, teaches the power of unique drum kit and percussion set-ups.
Influenced by styles from India and Mexico in addition to jazz and classical music. Quarteto Nuevo’s music is modern and uses advanced rhythms and time signatures yet also has the sound of ancient times.