Bentley String Quintet
Award-winning cellist Dr Danielle Bentley specialises in Australian art music and is co-leader of indie-classical trailblazer Ensemble Sooon.
Danielle was Australian Arts Fellow at Omi Music Residency New York (2018) & is a recipient of an APRA-AMCOS Art Music Award for Excellence. She works across multiple genres. Classical contexts include QSO, Auckland Philharmonia, Camerata and Paris Opera Ballet. She was a Director of art music ensemble Collusion for 7 years during which they produced several critically-acclaimed chamber ballets commissioned/performed over 40 Australian works and released 3 albums. Danielle has worked extensively in the commercial sector with over 100 international and Australian headliner artists. Bentley Strings has performed for Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.
With her wonderful knack of assembling the right ensemble, Bentley bought together a group of fine Brisbane musicians for the Dreaming in the Sand project.
Bentley String Quintet is featured on the following titles
Dreaming in the Sand
Robbie James’s String Quintet No. 3, Dreaming in the Sand, is given a raw live performance by the Bentley String Quintet at Brisbane’s New Benner Theatre. Across nine movements it visualises early colonisation through a dream of a nation founded on inclusivity—a dream that still shapes Australia.
