Sequoia Reed Quintet

If you are near South Bend, tune in to hear our performance of Astor Piazzolla’s Street Tango and Jeff Scott’s Homage to Paradise Valley!

Michiana friends - tune in TODAY at 7pm to WNIT Channel 34.2!

Arts @ IU South Bend Presents
Fischoff's Lift Every Voice Soiree

To amplify and celebrate historically underrepresented voices within the chamber music world, the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association was delighted to present our inaugural Fischoff Lift Every Voice Prize during this year’s Competition.

The 2022 Fischoff Lift Every Voice Prize for Senior Division Competition ensembles is an award for the best performance of a work by Black, Hispanic, Latino or Latina composer. Future years will look to highlight additional underrepresented groups.

This broadcast of the soiree during competition weekend showcasing the performances of winner, the Sequoia Reed Quintet , and runner-up, the Kodan Quintet.

See details of full program: https://conta.cc/3tIlUwq

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A few days late but Sequoia is honored to have taken the 🥈 Prize at this year’s Fischoff Competition!!! It was a long road coming for the ensemble but we are so thankful for three days of wonderful performances! In the next few weeks we will begin uploading our recordings from the competition, as well as from our concert at the MAG in March. Thank you all!

Day 2️⃣ at Fischoff begins with an announcement! 🎉We are honored to be the inaugural winner of the Lift Our Voices competition with Trevor’s arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s Street Tango! 🎉 Congrats to our friends in Kodan Quintet for being awarded runner-up!! Also, we are thrilled to be performing in the semifinals of the Senior Wind division tomorrow morning. Tune in to the link in our bio at 10:30 ET to hear us perform!

Today was a busy day with rehearsals, sound-checks, the quarterfinal rounds, and a Lift Our Voices soirée. Even in the midst of it all, there was time for yummy food and an intense game of Mario Kart. 🏎

Highlights from Day 1️⃣ at !! Lots of exploring in South Bend, IN with some rehearsals mixed in between.

Tune into the virtual Fischoff “Lift Our Voices” concert tomorrow at 12pm ET to hear ’s arrangement of Piazzolla’s Street Tango! 💃🕺

The Sequoiamobile is on the move! here we come. 🚙🎷

Thank you to everyone who came out to our concert at the Memorial Art Gallery last week! The Fountain Court is such a beautiful venue and we had an incredible audience. Special thank you goes out to the staff for being so accommodating. We will be posting snippets from the concert soon!

Whether to Scream or Breathe is tomorrow night!! SRQ has been having a wonderful time cooking up a concert for you all, and the MAG’s space looks breathtaking. Here is a picture from our final coaching with last night. Things are coming together…

Hello everyone!! Our concert at is a little over a week away so we wanted to share with you a little bit about the composer of our new work ! ⬇️

Ben West is an interdisciplinary composer, guitarist, and educator based in Providence, RI. Among others, they have been commissioned by The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, The Akropolis Reed Quintet, Kinan Azmeh, Quartetto Indaco, The Playground Ensemble, and The Neave Trio. Their works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe at Lincoln Center, the Mostly Modern Festival, highSCORE festival, Brown University, Harvard University and more. Ben has also been a teaching artist for the Very Young Composers program in Colorado and in New York City. Ben is currently focused on how communal sound making practices can interface with experimental and free-form compositional tools to create an ever so evolving and questioning musical experience. Ben is very invested in how practices such as soundpainting and soundmapping can be useful compositional, educational and communal ways of manipulating sounds and experiences. As a guitarist and bass player Ben engages with free-improvisation, noise rock, and many other experimental forms of sound creation and mixes that with their classical upbringing. Ben is also invested in thinking about how transness and non-binary bodies can form music in the cracks of society.

Ben is currently finishing up their undergraduate degree at Brown University and has worked with Wang Lu, Anthony Cheung, Eric Nathan, Eric DeLuca, and Kristina Warren. Other close mentors of theirs include Meredith Monk, Gabriel Kahane, Jon Deak, Conrad Kehn.

A Sequoia milestone for the year, all three of our graduating seniors have performed their degree recitals! Congrats to Gwen, Trevor, and Harrison. 🎉🎉 It still sometimes feels like we are first year students, and as always we want to thank all of you for following along with us on this journey. ❤️