Quenton Blache, cello

Hometown: Wake Forest, NC

Meet Quenton

Quenton appears on Show HL-39 “Black Voices in Classical Music”. He also appeared on Show 405 in 2021.

Quenton Blache is a cellist and composer based in Los Angeles. He has performed nationally and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and is a current member of the Sphinx Virtuosi. A frequent session musician, he has played on soundtracks for major films such as Moana 2 (2024) and Sinners (2025). In January 2025, he performed at the Grammy Awards with Best New Artist nominee Teddy Swims. As a composer, Quenton has written works for the Little Orchestra Society, North Carolina Chamber Music Institute, MYCO Youth Chamber Orchestra, Sphinx Organization and more. His latest string orchestra work Visions of Peace, co-commissioned by the Sphinx Organization, Carnegie Hall, and New World Symphony, had its NY premiere at Carnegie Hall performed by Sphinx Virtuosi in October 2025. Additional highlights include his work for solo cello and cello ensemble, Of Wind and Rain, appearing on renowned cellist Gautier Capuçon’s Warner Classics release Gaïa. Quenton has also scored several films, including Shape of Money (2024) and the documentary The Gospel According to Bill Pannell (2024). In his spare time, he enjoys playing chess and aspires to become an International Master (IM). Quenton plays on a modern cello made by Paris-based luthier Michael Fazio.

 

Show 405 Bio:

Quenton Blache (cello), 20, hails from Wake Forest, North Carolina, and currently resides in Los Angeles where he is a junior at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. He studies cello with Andrew Shulman. Quenton has won numerous competitions, including the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Talent Hunt Competition and the USC Bach Competition Undergraduate Division. He has performed in Europe, Asia, and at Carnegie Hall as a member of the National Youth Orchestra USA. An accomplished composer as well as a cellist, Quenton is especially passionate about composing for visual media. He has scored for the Vanuatu documentary No Part Too Small, and he is also the composer for the “Resilience Project,” a climate change “art-ivist” performance series that is a part of the inaugural USC Arts and Climate Collective. In his spare time, Quenton enjoys playing chess and aspires to one day be an International Master.

Listen to Quenton

Highlight Show 39
Free for Layered Celli by Quenton Xavier Blache, Excerpts from Suite No. 3 of Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Lamentations “Black Folk Song Suite”: IV. Perpetual Motion by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) , PetrolMusic by Khari Joyner , Mourinho by Ricardo Herz (b. 1978) , and Sequenza XIV by Luciano Berio (1925-2003)

Show 405
Rustiana by Quenton Blache (b. 2001)