Aruán Ortiz: Transatlantic Contemporary Music and Five Operatic Scenes

Music, Performance, Jazz, Opera

Roulette Intermedium, 509 Atlantic Ave, Downtown Brooklyn

Tuesday, Sept. 23 @ 7 p.m.

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2024 Guggenheim Fellow Aruán Ortiz is coming to the Roulette Intermedium on Tuesday, Sept. 23, to showcase his acclaimed avant-garde jazz style. The composer and pianist, celebrated for weaving Cuban-Haitian and Afro-Caribbean rhythms into contemporary classical jazz, will present Transatlantic Contemporary Music and Five Operatic Scenes. The program features works by James Newton, Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Davis and Jonathan Bailey Holland, alongside the world premiere of excerpts from Ortiz’s chamber opera “Je Renais De Mes Cendres.”

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