Terence Blanchard Quintet Plays 'Pace Presents' on 11/5

Jazz trumpet master Terence Blanchard brings his renowned ensemble to Lower Manhattan November 5 for an evening of jazz innovation as part of the inaugural season of Pace Presents, a new series of performing and visual arts events at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts.

A five-time Grammy winner, Blanchard has more than 29 albums and 50 film scores to his credit. His latest work, Choices, was released by Concord Jazz in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim. As a film composer, Blanchard received a Golden Globe nomination for his score to Spike Lee's 25th Hour. The two also collaborated on the HBO documentaries When the Levees Broke and If God's Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise, detailing the devastation left behind by Hurricane Katrina. In 2007, Blanchard released A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina), a song cycle that expanded upon tracks he composed for When the Levees Broke and which went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.

Blanchard recently made his Broadway debut in the Scott Rudin production of The Motherf**ker with the Hat starring Chris Rock and is currently at work on the musical score for the upcoming Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. He has also been commissioned by Opera St. Louis to write an original opera based on the life of boxing legend Emile Griffith, scheduled to premiere in 2012.

As Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which he was instrumental in relocating from Los Angeles to New Orleans, Blanchard works with students in the areas of artistic development, arranging, composition and concert programming. He has recently been named Artistic Director of both the Henry Mancini Institute (HMI) at the University of Miami Frost School of Music and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and continues to participate in master classes around the world as well as local community outreach activities in his beloved hometown of New Orleans.

The Terence Blanchard Quintet is presented as part of the inaugural Pace Presents season, which brings leading innovators in American and world music, dance and the visual arts to Lower Manhattan throughout 2011-2012.