Composer/Improviser

Composer Improviser

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ulián´s compositions are central to two projects they direct: Julián and Friends, a concert series running since 2022 at The Jazz Showcase, featuring guest artists such as Corey Wilkes, Lorin Benedict, Levi Lu, Brandon Woody, Kweku Sumbry, Lenard Simpson, Vincent Davis and Marques Carroll, and Mamey, a jazz project centering on Dominico-Haitian music. Mamey completed a spring of 2024 South Arts Jazz Tour of the East Coast and will release its debut album in 2025 thanks to a Pathways to Jazz grant. Julián is a Carrier Records artist, where they released the single Rothko; Tlaloc and Totec in 2023, and most recently had their composition Chord Prelude/Moriviví premiere at the DiMenna Center for New and Classical Music during the 2024 Yarn/Wire Institute Festival in New York. They recently completed a 2024 Banff Center for the Arts Jazz and Sonic Arts composition residency.

Julián is a curator at Fulcrum Point New Music Project, and is a member of the improviser music community in Chicago, performing regularly at
Elastic Art´s Freedom From Freedom To series.