Omar Sosa United States Tour 2020

Tuesday-Saturday • February 18-22
Birdland
New York, NY

Monday • February 24
Portland, OR

Friday • February 28
Royce Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, February 29 & Sunday, March 1
Yoshi's
Oakland, CA

Tuesday & Wednesday • March 3 & 4
Jazz Alley
Seattle, WA

Friday • March 6
Berklee Performance Center
Boston, MA

Saturday • March 7
Zlock Performing Arts Center
Bucks County Community College
Newtown, PA (Philadelphia)

Sunday • March 8
AMP by Strathmore
North Bethesda, MD (DC)

Tuesday • March 10
Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis, MN

Wednesday • March 11
Aretha's Jazz Café
Detroit, MI

Thursday-Sunday • March 12-15
Jazz Showcase
Chicago, IL

Composer-pianist-bandleader Omar Sosa was born in 1965 in Camagüey, Cuba’s largest inland city. At age eight, Omar began studying percussion and marimba at the music conservatory in Camagüey; in Havana, as a teenager, he took up piano at the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Música, and completed his formal education at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. Annually performing upwards of 100 concerts on six continents, Omar has appeared in venues as diverse as the Blue Note (New York, Milan, and Tokyo), Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Getty Center, London’s Barbican and Queen Elizabeth Hall, Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall, and Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt; festivals including Monterey Jazz, JVC Jazz, Montreal Jazz, Marciac Jazz, North Sea Jazz, Helsinki, Grenoble Jazz, Montreux Jazz, Naples Jazz, Ravenna Jazz, Roma Jazz, Spoletto, WOMAD, and Cape Town International Jazz; and universities on several continents, including a visiting artist fellowship at Princeton University in March 2008, and a visiting artist residency at Dartmouth College in April 2008.Mr. Sosa received a lifetime achievement award from the Smithsonian Associates in Washington, DC in 2003 for his contribution to the development of Latin jazz in the United States. He has received two nominations from the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, in 2004 and 2006, both in the ‘Americas’ category. In 2003 Omar Sosa received the Afro-Caribbean Jazz Album of the Year Award from the Jazz Journalists Association in NYC for his recording Sentir; and a nomination from the Jazz Journalists Association for Latin Jazz Album of the Year in 2005 for his recording Mulatos.  He is also the recipient of five GRAMMY nominations: these include 2002 GRAMMY nomination and Latin GRAMMY nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album for the CD Sentir; a 2005 GRAMMY nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album for the CD Mulatos, featuring Cuban saxophone and clarinet master, Paquito D’Rivera; and the two nominations for Across The Divide in 2009.