Quentin Walston

Quentin Walston is an active pianist, educator, and author of How to Teach Jazz & Improvisation. His book equips music educators of all backgrounds to bring jazz into classrooms and lessons. He is also the founder of This Is Jazz, a company dedicated to jazz education and appreciation. Quentin Walston performs with his jazz trio and as a solo pianist, blending memorable melodies and striking rhythms with adventurous improvisations. His album Retro Future features original works inspired by masters from Thelonious Monk to Jason Moran. Through workshops and seminars for all ages covering jazz, composition, and music history, Quentin brings passionate expertise to jazz performance and education in any setting, classroom or concert hall.

How to Teach Jazz & Improvisation is availabe worldwide in print & ebook at This Is Jazz

and in North American markets on amazon.

Awards

Maryland State Arts Council - Performing Artist

Virginia Commission for the Arts - Teaching Artist

Finalist - Musica Prospettiva Composition Competition 2021

Loudoun Arts Council COLLAB Artist Residency - 2020

Boysie Lowry Living Jazz Residency - 2015, 2016

Tags

“Quentin brings an extremely educational, intellectual, informative, and fun approach to many about the wonderful legacy of jazz” - The Billy Strayhorn Foundation: Galen Demus/Jazz Education Coordinator

"Quentin plays with the beat, off the beat, around the beat. And that's just the beat. Melody, harmony, touch and feel are all fully developed and realized and paramount in every phrase..." -Clarke Monthly

"Quentin Walston’s short but affecting spiritual suite will leave the listener longing for more. Four of Five Stars" -Journal of Gospel Music

Primary Instrument

Piano

Location

Washington

Willing to teach

Beginner to advanced

Credentials/Background

Education: James Madison University: 2015 - magna cum laude Boysie Lowry Living Jazz Residency: 2015 & 2016 Teaching Experience: Catoctin School of Music: 2016-2021 Private Instruction: 2015-present

Virginia Commission for the Arts: Teaching Artist

Please contact for hours and rates.

Clinic/Workshop Information

Clinics offered to all ages and abilities. Prior classes have included: -Beginner Composition -Advanced Composition -Beginner Jazz Theory -Advanced Jazz Theory -Adult Theory -Jazz History