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The Echelon String Quartet

Modern String Quartet Music

About Me

We are a string quartet from UW-Whitewater that specializes in performing jazz and modern contemporary style pieces. We have been together for almost a year and have already made some awesome accomplishments. We have done a University Sponsored tour of local high schools in southeastern Wisconsin, but would like to go even further than that. We are all accomplished instrumentalists individually but when we are put together, it is a force to be reckoned with. Our goal is to arrange our own pieces and also premier pieces that have never been played live or been recorded. We hope to have recordings of us playing up soon. We are open for people to write pieces for us and will play just about anything. If you are wanting a piece performed we would be more than happy to perform it. We have many influences from jazz to classical, to pop and folk music. Thanks for checking us out!
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Member Since: 11/30/2007
Band Members: Blaine McQuinn - Violin
Alerdale Wimer - Violin
Leah Schultz - Viola
Jonathan Miller - Cello
Influences: Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, Kronos String Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, Emerson String Quartet, Modern & Contemporary Music, Eric Schwartz, Bela Bartok, Phillip Glass, George Crumb, Claude Debussy, Dmitri Schostakovich.
Sounds Like: "Traditional" String Quartet singing "Non-Traditional" Sounds
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None