Brooklyn Center Presents Yosvany Terry Afro-Cuban Sextet

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College presents Yosvany Terry Afro-Cuban Sextet Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 8pm

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College concludes its 2016-17 Jazz series on Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 8pm with Yosvany Terry Afro-Cuban Sextet.Blending influences from West Africa, Cuba, and American jazz, the GRAMMY Award-nominated artist has created a singular sound, now recognized as one of the most ambitious cross-cultural visions on the contemporary scene.Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at BrooklynCenter.org or by calling the box office at 718-951-4500 (Tue-Sat, 1pm-6pm).

About Yosvany Terry

Saxophonist Yosvany Terryburst onto the jazz and contemporary music scene in New York in 1999. Born into an illustrious musical family in Camaguey, Cuba, Terry is an internationally acclaimed composer, saxophonist, percussionist, bandleader, educator, and cultural bearer of the Afro-Cuban tradition. After immersing himself in the European classical tradition at Havana's prestigious National School of Arts and Amadeo Roldan Conservatory, he went on to perform with major figures in every realm of Cuban music, including celebrated nueva trova singer/guitarist Silvio Rodriguez, pianists Chucho Valdes and Frank Emilio, and Don Pancho y Los Terry, the band led by his father, violinist and shekere master Eladio "Don Pancho" Terry Gonzales.

From his earliest days in New York, Terry has been embraced by the jazz and contemporary music community, playing with Branford Marsalis, Rufus Reid, Dave Douglas, Steve Coleman, Roy Hargrove, Henry Threadgill, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Taj Mahal, and the Eddie Palmieri Afro-Caribbean Sextet. While best known as a blazing improviser, he's rapidly gaining renown as a composer, bandleader, and educator with a string of high-profile awards, appointments, and commissions. In 2015, Terry was named a recipient of the prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award, and was hired by Harvard University as Director of Jazz Ensembles and Senior Lecturer on Music.

He has received recent commissions from San Francisco's Yerba Buena Garden Festival ("Noches de Parranda" for 12-piece ensemble with the support of The MAP Fund), the French-American Jazz

Exchange with support from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation ("Ancestral Memories" with French pianist Baptiste Trotignon), and the Harlem Stage (the score for the opera Makandal). Terry also received a grant from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and New York State Music Fund to create "Afro-Cuban Roots: Yedégbé," a suite of Arará music documented on his acclaimed 2014 album.

His latest release, 2014's GRAMMY Award-nominated New Throned King, features music based on cantos and rhythms of the Arará people of the western Cuban province of Matanzas, who hail from the Dahomey kingdom's Fon culture in what is now Benin. His previous album, 2012's Today's Opinion, was selected as one of the Top 10 Albums of the Year by The New York Times' Nate Chinen. Terry's latest project, The Bohemian Trio, is a genre-defying contemporary music ensemble based in New York.

The Yosvany Terry Afro-Cuban Sextet is part of Brooklyn Center's 2016-17 Con Edison Music Masters Series, which concludes with on May 13 at 7:30pm with10-time GRAMMY winner Chaka Khan.

Visit BrooklynCenter.org for a complete season lineup.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts' presentation of Yosvany Terry Afro-Cuban Sextet is made possible through the Jazz Touring Network program of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support for Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts' 2016-17 Jazz Series is provided by Con Edison and WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM.

Yosvany Terry Afro-Cuban Sextet
Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 8pm
Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College

2900 Avenue H, Brooklyn, NY 11210

Tickets: $35

Box Office: BrooklynCenter.org or 718-951-4500 (Tue-Sat, 1pm-6pm)

Groups of 15 or more: 718-951-4600 x3327

Discounts are available for seniors, students, children ages 12 and under, Brooklyn College faculty/staff/alumni, active/retired military personnel, and groups. $10 student rush tickets are available starting one hour before curtain with a valid ID.

About Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts

Founded in 1954, Brooklyn Center for the PerformingArts at Brooklyn College presents outstanding performing arts and arts education programs, reflective of Brooklyn's diverse communities, at affordable prices. Each season, Brooklyn Center welcomes over 65,000 people to the 2,400 seat Whitman Theatre, including up to 45,000 schoolchildren from over 300 schools who attend their SchoolTime series, one of the largest arts-in-education programs in the borough.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts' programs are supported, in part, by public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Brooklyn Center's 2016-17 season is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Major support for the 2016-17 season is provided by: Brooklyn College, Con Edison, TD Bank, National Grid, The Howard Gilman Foundation, the Jazz Touring Network, the Alice Lawrence Foundation, the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the TD Charitable Foundation. Additional support provided by CNG Publications, The Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn Media Group, and WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM. The Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott New York Brooklyn is the official hotel of Brooklyn Center's 2016-17 season. Backstage catering is graciously provided by Applebee's.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges generous support from New York State Assembly members Annette Robinson and Helene Weinstein; New York City Council Member Jumaane D. Williams; New York City Council Cultural Affairs Committee Chair Jimmy Van Bramer; New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Tom Finkelpearl.