Celebrate the New Year with a Free Digital Concert!

Saturday, January 4, 2025 on YouTube

4:00 pm - Digital Concert Premiere

On a day in beautiful early September, the Desert Quill Quartet played music in four incredible settings around Westben and Trent Hills, including Willow Hill, The Mary West Nature Reserve, and a giant tunnel on the Trans Canada trail! This spellbinding ~25-minute concert explores a composition by each of the Desert Quill Quartet's members. Through pieces and songs inspired by improvisation, mentors, bird songs and electronic ambient music, this adventurously warm acoustic quartet of friends welcomes you into a playful connection with wherever you call home.

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Dan Gonzalez, clarinet

Yvette Holzwarth, violin

Patrick Behnke, viola

Ben Finley, double bass

The Desert Quill Quartet instrumentation opens an unplaceable and rich acoustic sonic palette—welcoming in improvisatory soundscapes, kinetic grooves, and personal/place-based compositions. Through multi-disciplinary collaborations, recordings, and live performances, you will hear cued in-the-moment sonic transformations that invite ears of all kinds into worlds that are playful, warm, expansive and deeply communicative.

The Desert Quill Quartet—whether moving sound and space with dancers, soundtracking stop animations, or playing on mountain tops, in basements or in concert halls—sparks a fresh and a joyfully far-reaching ethos to contemporary music making and human connection.