ETIENNE CHARLES

Trinidad-born trumpet player Etienne Charles is a performer, composer, and storyteller, who is continuously searching for untold stories and sounds with which to tell them.

A Guggenheim Fellow, in 2022 he received a commission to compose and perform his composition ‘San Juan Hill’ with the New York Philharmonic for the opening of New York’s Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall.  A recent addition to the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, Charles brings his special project, Traces, to our series.

Traces follows the journey of Sephardic music from the Middle East to Europe and to Latin America.