Cellofourte is an anomaly in the music world: three classically trained cellists and a rock drummer performing high-octane music in locales ranging from concert halls to biker bars. Appealing to a wide audience--from tweens to adults, classical music buffs to rock groupies--sets Cellofourte apart from your average rock band.
Begun as a cover band of four cellists in 2004, Cellofourte has continued to evolve in the music world, developing its own unique style of cello rock. With the introduction of drummer and new band member Mark Jovanovich in May 2009 (following the departure of cellist Tate Olsen), the band has unleashed a new vitality and rhythmic drive to its already passionate and captivating music.
Proving that Cellofourte is much more than a classical ensemble, the band won five rounds of the Emergenza Battle of the Bands, and was featured on the front page of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Cellofourte’s first music video was produced by the John Lennon Foundation, the result of winning the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Battle of the Bands. Cellofourte has performed live on television programs such as Comcast’s On-Demand, KDKA’s “Pittsburgh Today Live”, and the WQED Holiday Jam 2007, as well as on WQED and KDKA radio stations. In June of 2008, Cellofourte appeared as soloists with the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops under the direction of Marvin Hamlisch. Cellofourte has performed for audiences of 2,500 in number at college venues, clubs, music festivals, classical performance spaces, conferences, showcases, schools, and churches throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Missouri, and New Hampshire. Currently on the roster for both the Pennsylvania Performing Artists on Tour (PennPAT) and the Gateway to the Arts educational outreach program, Cellofourte continues to expand its base and reach out to young audiences.
Cellofourte's performance venues include the 31st Street Pub (Pittsburgh, PA)*Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA)*Alumni Concert Hall (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)*Artist Image Resources (Pittsburgh PA)*Backstage Bar (Pittsburgh, PA)*Bodiography Dance (Pittsburgh, PA)*Byham Theatre (Pittsburgh, PA)*Carnegie Music Hall (Pittsburgh, PA)*Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Main (Pittsburgh, PA)*Children’s Museum (Pittsburgh, PA)*Clarion University (Clarion, PA)*Club Café (Pittsburgh, PA)*Club Diesel (Pittsburgh, PA)*Crawford Center (Emlenton, PA)*Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)*The Fire (Philadelphia, PA)*Fox Chapel Country Club (Pittsburgh, PA)*Garfield Artworks (Pittsburgh, PA)*Grove City College (Grove City, PA)*Hard Rock Cafe (Pittsburgh, PA)*Heinz Field (Pittsburgh, PA)*Heinz Hall (Pittsburgh, PA)*KDKA television and radio (Pittsburgh, PA)*Kresge Recital Hall (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA)*LeMont Restaurant (Pittsburgh, PA)*The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA)*Messiah College (Grantham, PA)*Mr. Small’s Theatre (Millvale, PA)*Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)*O’Reilly Theatre (Pittsburgh, PA)*Peabody’s Down Under (Cleveland, OH)*Penn State University, Erie (Erie, PA)*Pittsburgh Public Theatre (Pittsburgh, PA)*The Priory (Pittsburgh, PA)*The Purple Fiddle (Thomas, WV)*Radio Radio (Indianapolis, IN)*The Riot Room (Kansas City, MO)*Saddle Ridge (Pittsburgh PA)*Shadow Lounge (Pittsburgh, PA)*The Smiling Moose (Pittsburgh, PA)*SPACE Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA)*University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)*Vintage Vinyl (St. Louis, MO)*WQED Television and Radio Studios (Pittsburgh, PA)
CONTACT THE BAND by emailing us at CELLOFOURTE@GMAIL.COM
Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends!
We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too.
We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy.
Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.
We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.
What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
Hey Cellofourte! Just want to stop by to say thanks for being friends! Keep me in mind if you need any mastering done. All of the info is on my page and feel free to email me anytime. Only $25 per song and $100 for an EP, mix-tape, or full CD! Thanks!! Jim Wavelength MD
i first heard you on bowed radio a couple of years ago. you guys are great. so are your compositions. i'm happy to see you continue to prosper and grow.
If you came back to Carrick that'd be amazing. But make sure it's in the next two years so I'll still be there. =]
It was really cool that you guys hung out with us and answered all our weird questions, we weren't expecting it. It's not everyday a famous cello group actually sits down with us and is down to earth and cool about everything. Thank you for the super dooper performance, and for dealing with the fact one of us believe that the person in bands with the microphone is the keyboardist. xP
Oh, I uploaded the pictures I took on my phone, and it's in the CelloFourte folder thing in my pictures if you want to check them out and steal some.
Hi Cellofourte it's an honor to be your friend,thanks a lot for the comment,and see you in our website launching in April,take care my friend and have the best 2009!
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