ARTURO SANDOVAL

Arturo Sandoval, the Cuban trumpet virtuoso, can burn through an Afro-Cuban groove, tear up a bebop tune, soar over a Mozart concerto and soothe you with a luscious ballad with equal power and grace. He is a protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie and is one of the world's most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugel horn, and is known as a renowned classical artist.

Sandoval was a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning group Irakere and in 1981, he left Irakere to form his own band. Sandoval was voted Cuba's Best Instrumentalist from 1982 to 1990. He has been awarded four Grammy Awards, Six Billboard Awards and an Emmy Award for his composing work on the entire underscore of the HBO movie based on his life, For Love or Country, starring Andy Garcia. One of the most dynamic and vivacious live performers of our time, he was recently seen by millions performing on the Grammy Awards with pop-phenomenon Justin Timberlake, as well as on the Latin Billboard Awards with the gifted Alicia Keys.

Arturo Sandoval's versatility can be heard on recordings with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Woody Shaw, Michel Legrand, Bill Conti, and Stan Getz to Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Paul Anka and Rod Stewart, among others. He has performed with Céline Dion at the Oscars, John Williams and the Boston Pops, and at the Super Bowl with Tony Bennett and Patti LaBelle. His playing can also be heard on Dave Grusin's soundtrack for Havana, in the Mambo Kings soundtrack with his Grammy-nominated composition "Mambo Caliente." in the soundtrack, of The Perez Family, and he was commissioned by the Kennedy Center to compose the music for the ballet, Pepito's Story, choreographed by Debbie Allen.

Sandoval is also a renowned classical musician and has been chosen to perform with the foremost orchestras on primetime television. He composed his own "Concerto for Trumpet & Orchestra," and was asked by John Williams to record on Williams' original Trumpet Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Sandoval lives in Miami and is a tenured professor at Florida International University. He works nationally and abroad with innumerable institutions and their music departments, offering several scholarships, exercise books, clinics and seminars.