Arturo O’Farrill

Arturo O’Farrill is a pianist, composer, and educator, and multiple Grammy Award winner born in Mexico and raised in New York City. Mr. O’Farrill’s professional career began with the Carla Bley Band and continued as a solo performer with a wide spectrum of artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Bowie, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte.

Mr. O’Farrill performs with orchestras and bands including his own Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, as well as other orchestras and smaller ensembles in the U.S., U.K., Europe, Russia, Australia, and South America.

He has received commissions from Meet the Composer, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Apollo Theater, the Young Peoples Chorus of New York, and the New York State Council on the Arts. In 2007, he founded the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the performance, education, and preservation of Afro Latin music.