Member Since: 3/8/2008
Band Website: catherinebent.com
Band Members: Catherine Bent is Sweet Spot Strings’ Musical Director, Engineer, and Cellist.
Influences: Your Music & Our Instinct
but also Bjork, the Beatles, Astor Piazzolla, Nelson Riddle, Ray Ellis, Eddie Sauter, Billy May, J.S. Bach, Debussy, Villa-Lobos, Bartok, George Martin, Strays and the Duke
Sounds Like: What do you hear on your record? Solo cello. . . . . .or an orchestra?
Maybe you envision the mountains. . . . . or CBGB’s.
Whether you hear specific parts, or an atmosphere you want to create -- or perhaps you want to get Experimental -- Sweet Spot Strings provide custom ensembles for your recording.
Film Credits:
THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK (2007)
Catherine Bent arranged, contracted and directed the orchestra for the soundtrack
of Break Thru Films’ vital documentary of the conflict in Darfur, Sudan,
winner of the following awards:
SEEDS OF WAR AWARD Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
FULL FRAME/WORKING FILM AWARD Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
WITNESS AWARD SilverDocs Film Festival 2007
Lena Sharpe / Women in Cinema Persistence of Vision Award / Seattle International Film Festival 2007
Adrienne Shelly EXCELLENCE IN FILMMAKING Award /Nantucket Film Festival
Soundtrack composed by Paul Brill, Orchestration by Catherine Bent
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"Catherine Bent is a true artist. Like a kite on a string she makes her string arrangements soar into the ether, while holding on to the melodies she is writing to. We first gave Catherine the material for our second album "Candelabra Cadabra", and wondered what she was going to come up with. A short time later we were asked to come to her studio where her musicians were assembled to play her arrangements on our material. I couldn’t believe the beauty and magic of what she had written. It brought a tear to my eye. Catherine is a superb arranger and player and I would recommend her for any gig requiring cello or a string section."
- Patti Rothberg, singer/songwriter
www.myspace.com/pattirothbergmusic
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None