Yosvany Terry reaches "Doris Duke Artists Award", 2015

YOSVANY TERRY

DORIS DUKE ARTIST AWARD, 2015
JAZZ

New York, NY

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Yosvany Terry has played a pivotal role in defining the sound of Afro-Cuban jazz in the new century. He received his earliest musical education from his father, legendary Cuban chekeré master and violinist Eladio “Don Pancho” Terry. He graduated from the National School of Arts and Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in Havana before moving to New York, where he soon performed alongside Roy Hargrove, Steve Coleman, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. He has received grants from the French American Jazz Exchange (2014), the MAP Fund (2013), and Chamber Music America (2009), among others. His latest release, the GRAMMY Award-nominatedNew Throned King (5Passion, 2014), features music based on Arara cantos and rhythms and has been called the “musical culmination of his spiritual exploration” (All About Jazz). In 2015, he will premiere the music of the operaMakandal, with libretto by Carl H. Rux, at Harlem Stage, and his latest project Ancestral Memory will premiere at Yerba Buena Garden Festival.
Yosvany Terry has formed several groups and has also collaborated with several artists frontline as: Manuel Valera, Fabian Almazan, Gema Corredera, Brian Lynch, Xiomara Laugart, Sofia Tosello, Claudia Acuña, Arturo O'Farrill, Dafnis Prieto and his own brother yunior, among others.
We invite you to enjoy this wonderful video of Bohemian Trio (Yosvany Terry, sax; Yves Dharamraj, cello; Orlando Alonso, piano) in the execution of original "Okonkolo" Terry to celebrate his triumph:

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