JD Hunter is a violinist, performance artist, composer, arranger, studio musician and producer, under the pseudonym QWEENJD, breathing High Art Classical Realness into every performance space and collaboration entered A graduate of New England Conservatory of Music and three-time Tanglewood Music Center Fellow, collaborations represent a wide range of artists from Hamed Sinno to G-Eazy and Yo-Yo Ma. Performances include venues all over the country; the Los Angeles Dolby Theater with The Rock Orchestra, Radio City Music Hall with The Rockettes Christmas Spectacular and Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall with Jinkx Monsoon as well as Broadway orchestra pits with Sweeney Todd, The Notebook, The Great Gatsby, 1776 and as concertmaster of Disney's Aladdin the Broadway Musical First National Tour.
The performance at Belmont Chapel returns to the source: RESONANCE. Improvising, looping, vocalizing and meditating on a tonal framework of music by Bach and Respighi, JD invites the audience into the resonant liminal space between practice, process and performance.
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