Arcoiris Sandoval Sonic Asylum Trio
Tucson Jazz Festival
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520-237-6092
E-mail:
Debi@pvincaz.com
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Arcoiris Sandoval is a jazz pianist, composer and Fulbright award recipient currently residing in New York City originally from Tucson, Arizona. She leads her own trio and quintet project called Sonic Asylum and is the Co-Director of an award-winning multimedia orchestra called The D.O.M.E. Experience along with bassist Mimi Jones which aims to raise environmental and social awareness through the integration of orchestral composition, choreography and cinematography. She toured, recorded and was the MD for acclaimed vocalist Allan Harris for over five years and performs occasionally with The Mingus Big Band. She has written, conducted and performed string arrangements with vocalist Tammy McCann at Lincoln Center which were also performed at the Music Institute of Chicago. In 2022, she was the keyboardist for an orchestral tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center. She obtained her Master’s degree in jazz piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and has won 2013 and 2015 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer awards in addition to being a semifinalist at in the Montreux Solo Jazz Piano competition in 2012, a participant in the Mary Lou Williams Festival as well as the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program and the Metropole Orkest Arrangers Workshop directed by Vince Mendoza featuring guest artist Richard Bona. She was also a finalist at the inaugural Ellis Marsalis Jazz Piano Competition in summer 2018. One of her arrangements was performed by the Metropole Orkest at the 2016 BBC Proms tribute to Quincy Jones. She has also performed at major festivals throughout the world including Umbria Jazz Festival with Allan Harris, NYC Jazz Piano Festival, Vermont Jazz Center Solo Piano Festival, Tucson Jazz Festival where she performed with legendary jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb in 2015 and in 2017 she opened for Tower of Power with Lonnie Plaxico, as well as Telluride Jazz and many others. In 2018, she released her debut Sonic Asylum Trio album entitled “First Voyage” featuring Marty Kenney on bass and Allan Mednard on drums which won a Global Music Award. Her Sonic Asylum trio and quintet project has performed at NYC Winter Jazzfest in 2024, the Kennedy Center, Vermont Jazz Emerging Artist Festival and she won a Chamber Music America Performance Plus grant for this ensemble to work with Billy Childs. Her original composition “Journey to Agartha” is now published in Terri Lyne Carrington’s compilation called “New Standards, 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers”.
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2709667-0?pid=176
Price:
General Admission: USD 25.00
Time: 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Street Address
The Century Room, 311 East Congress StreetTucson, AZ 85701
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