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Beth Quist, an American vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has a 4-octave soprano voice and was previously the lead soprano for Cirque du Soleil.
Quist is from Boulder, Colorado. [1] She began playing piano at the age of two years and wrote her first song when she was eight years old. [2]
Quist performs as a solo artist and with several bands. [3] She has a 4-octave soprano voice and plays dumbek, guitar, flute, keyboards, the piano, the santour or hammered dulcimer. [1] [4] Her music combines combines her Western upbringing with influences from the Balkans, India, and the Middle East. [1] She is signed to the label Magnatune, an independent record label that was formed by John Buckman to release and help promote her music. [5] [4] She released her first solo album, Lucidity, in 1995. [2]
In 1997, she became a member of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra and has performed on his solo albums Circlesongs (1997) and VOCAbuLarieS (2010). [3] [2] She has also worked with the Grammy Award-winning new age musician Kitarō and has recorded with Roger Fisher, the fouding guitar player of the band Heart. [6] [4] She has also collaborated and recorded with Ishwish (Christopher Currell), Delerium, The Motet, Nawang Khechog, Kirsty Hawkshaw, and Trey Gunn. [7] [8] [4] [9] [10] [11]
Quist is a member of the Sherefé, a Balkan Middle Eastern music band formed in Boulder, Colorado in the mid-1990s. [12] She provides vocals and plays the hammered dulcimer and riq in Sherefé. [12] [1] She was a member of the Seattle band Children of the Revolution and was an original member of The Guarneri Underground (now known as the Geoffrey Castle Band). [13] [4]
In 2012, Quist joined Cirque du Soleil's KA show in Las Vegas as its lead soprano and as a writer and instrumentalist. [3] [4] [1] When she left the show, its music had to be changed; the score had been written around her skills and Cirque du Soleil was unable to find another artist who could sing and play the required array of instruments. [5]
She has composed more than fifty scores for dance, film, and other media. She contributed music to The Two Escobars , a documentary that was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2011. [3] In 2014, she composed music for dancer Brette Adams' "Nightshade" performance. [14] Quist also teaches music workshops. [1]
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