Cloudbreak for piano quintet – premiere at Desert Roots Rising Stars concert “Resonant Earth”

Jennifer Bellor at the Desert Roots Rising Stars Festival concert

Premiere of Cloudbreak for piano quintet at the Desert Roots Rising Stars Festival concert June 11, 2026 at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Emily S. Richardson and Shakeh Ghoukasian, violins; Omar Shelly, viola; Jeremy Russo, cello; Alexandria Le, piano

Album Release Concert Photos

photos from our album release concert at Southern Nevada Music on Sunday, April 26

We premiered the entire album CATCHING CLOUDS live in concert!

CATCHING CLOUDS album now streaming!

Music by JENNIFER BELLOR  

BRYAN CONGER, clarinet 

SHAWNA PENNOCK, alto saxophone

JAMES DOYLE, vibraphone 

JENNIFER BELLOR, piano

Here is a lInk to the album on all streaming platforms

“Composer Jennifer Bellor invites you into a world of sound, memory, and imagination with Catching Clouds, a nine-track journey where nostalgia meets fantasy. Scored for clarinet, alto saxophone, vibraphone, and piano, the music blends contemporary classical, jazz, and commercial styles in a seamless, expressive sound world. Designed as both a listening experience and a live performance journey, the album flows as one continuous narrative – with themes that return, transform, and evolve.” – Lexicon Classics

“It is difficult, for once, to decide which is most impressive in terms of the mechanics of the release itself: the recording or the performance. There is no doubting Bellor’s talent over and above all that, of course. Her music walks the perilous tightrope that exists between approachability and sophistication. It is also worth noting that this is layered music: one listening might be a lovely experience, but the profundities only reveal themselves after multiple hearings. And that, surely, is the very definition of truly good, worthwhile music. ” – Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine