Wynton Marsalis
b. 1961
Snapshot
First jazz artist to receive the Pulitzer Prize in music for his work Blood on the Fields * Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center * Big band leader in the tradition of Duke Ellington * Devoted advocate for the Arts and education * Hailed as the most outstanding jazz musician and trumpeter of his generation, as well as one of the world’s top classical trumpeters * Has garnered nine Grammy awards, France's Grand Prix du Disque, the Edison Award of the Netherlands, National Medal of Arts, named Musical America’s Musician of The Year and has been elected an honorary member of England's Royal Academy of Music
Works by Wynton Marsalis include:
Two in 3 (2008) for jazz orchestra and symphony orchestra
Abyssinian 200: A Celebration (2008) for choir and jazz orchestra
Congo Square (2006) for jazz band and African ensemble
Meeelaan (2000) for bassoon and string quartet
All Rise (Symphony No. 1) (1999) for big band, gospel choir, and symphony orchestra
A Fiddler’s Tale (1998) for chamber ensemble and narrator
Blood on the Fields (1997) for jazz big band and 3 vocalists
At the Octoroon Balls (1995) for string quartet
Wynton Marsalis' Official Website - www.wyntonmarsalis.org
Jazz at Lincoln Center Website - www.jalc.org
Looking Ahead:
Alan Gilbert conducts the U.S. Premiere of Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3), Wynton Marsalis’s new work for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic on opening night September 22, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall. Click here to learn more.
Alan Gilbert conducts the U.S. Premiere of Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3), Wynton Marsalis’s new work for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic on opening night September 22, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall. Click here to learn more.
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