Community Arts Program (CAP) 2019 Summer Concert Series 34th Season! DAFNIS PRIETO SI O SI QUARTET * "Invigorating, imaginative, and rhythmically exhilarating.” All About Jazz Dafnis Prieto, drums / Peter Apfelbaum, sax & percussion Martin Bejerano, piano / Armando Gola, bass Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ Dafnis Prieto won the 2019 GRAMMY® for Best Latin Jazz Album for his latest recording, Back to the Sunset. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Award) in 2011. He received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 2007. His album, Absolute Quintet, earned a Grammy nomination in 2006 for Best Latin Jazz Album. Prieto was named Up & Coming Musician of the Year in 2006 by the Jazz Journalists Association. Dafnis has worked in bands led by Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Chico and Arturo O’Farrill, Dave Samuels & The Caribbean Jazz Project, Jane Bunnett, D.D. Jackson, Edward Simon, Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdez, Bebo Valdez, Roy Hargrove, Don Byron and Andrew Hill, among others. He has conducted master classes, clinics, and workshops throughout the world and previously served on NYU’s jazz faculty from 2005 to 2014. Originally from Cuba, Prieto’s revolutionary drumming techniques and compositions have had a powerful impact on the Latin and jazz music scenes, nationally and internationally. As a composer, Dafnis has created music for dance, film, chamber ensembles, most notably for his own bands including seven acclaimed recordings as a leader: About The Monks, Absolute Quintet, Taking The Soul For a Walk, Si o Si Quartet-Live at Jazz Standard, Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio, Triangles and Circles, and Back to the Sunset, by the Dafnis Prieto Big Band. For the Community Arts Program (CAP) 2019 Summer Concert Series, Dafnis Prieto brings his Si o Si Quartet: Dafnis Prieto (drums), Peter Apfelbaum (sax & percussion), Martin Bejerano (piano), and Armando Gola, bass. It’ll have concertgoers groovin’! *Dafnis Prieto will also conduct a FREE 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Friday, August 9 CAP Summer Master Class open to all at Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ. Press Only: Contact Person, Phone, & Email Mark Hart 786.423.3071 [email protected] .