Cécile McLorin Salvant in Concert
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Organizations: Cécile McLorin Salvant
Date: Saturday, April 29, 2023
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost:

Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents Cécile McLorin Salvant in concert on Saturday, April 29, 2023.

MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, singer, and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant brings historical perspective, a renewed sense of drama, and a clear-eyed take on jazz standards and her own original compositions. Classically trained; steeped in jazz, blues, and folk; and drawing from musical theatre and vaudeville, Salvant embraces a wide-ranging repertoire with her rich, powerful voice, broadening the possibilities for live performance.

"Salvant, regularly and rightly, is considered one of the greatest jazz singers of her generation..." -- Rolling Stone

Cécile McLorin Salvant, is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The late Jessye Norman described Salvant as“a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings”.

Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, theater, jazz, baroque and folkloric music. Salvant is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor.

Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010. She has received three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for “The Window”, “Dreams and Daggers”, and “For One To Love”, and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album “WomanChild”.

In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. Nonesuch Records released “Ghost Song” in March 2022, and has since gone onto receive two Grammy Nominations as well as appearing on a number of year end best lists for 2022.

Born and raised in Miami, Florida, of a French mother and Haitian father, she started classical piano studies at 5, sang in a children’s choir at 8, and started classical voice lessons as a teenager.

Salvant received a bachelor’s in French law from the Université Pierre-Mendes France in Grenoble while also studying baroque music and jazz at the Darius Milhaud Music Conservatory in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Links:

• https://www.cecilemclorinsalvant.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/CecileMcLorinSalvantMusic
• https://www.instagram.com/cecilemclorinsalvant/

Adults tickets range from $20.00-45.00 and tickets for Virginia Tech student tickets with ID and youth ages 18 & under are $10.00 each.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/online/mapSelect.asp?doWork::WSmap::loadMap=Load&createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=E606A931-2869-40A7-8B5C-DC8286AAD4B9.

For more information please visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/cecile-mclorin-salvant.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/.