Loyola Bayou Orchestra Festival

Loyola is thrilled to present our first ever Orchestra Festival featuring the 9 Horses ensemble. Faculty are encouraged to nominate their students to be part of this amazing opportunity. 

9 Horses is an improvising chamber ensemble featuring Joe Brent (formerly of Regina Spektor’s band) on acoustic and electric mandolin, 2018 GRAMMY nominee Sara Caswell (Esperanza Spalding) on violin and Hardanger d'amore, and Andrew Ryan (Kaia Kater) on bass. Featuring Brent's original compositions and the incendiary, genre-hopping virtuosity of all three members, the trio at the core of 9 Horses represents their vision of a musical future with no barrier between 'folk art' and 'fine art', and as an ensemble are capable of communicating this idea through musical canvases both great and small.

If you would like to follow 9 horses on their bandcamp page, click the link below! 

https://9horses.bandcamp.com/music

Please click on the button to fill out a student application. Thank you! 

Student Application Form

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