Terence Blanchard
American trumpeter and composer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter, pianist and composer. A jazz musician, he has also composed film scores and operas. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed on more than fifty. A frequent collaborator with director Spike Lee, he has been nominated for two Academy Awards for composing the scores for Lee's films BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Da 5 Bloods (2020). He has won five Grammy Awards from fourteen nominations.
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Birth name | Terence Oliver Blanchard |
Born | (1962-03-13) March 13, 1962 (age 62) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, conductor, arranger, orchestrator |
Instrument(s) | Trumpet, piano, keyboards |
Years active | 1982–present |
Labels | Blue Note, Sony Classical, Columbia |
Website | www |
From 2000 to 2011, Blanchard served as artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. In 2011, he was named artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami, and in 2015, he became a visiting scholar in jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music. In 2019, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), named Blanchard to its Endowed Chair in Jazz Studies, where he remained until 2023.
The Metropolitan Opera in New York staged Blanchard's opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones in its 2021–2022 season, the first opera by an African American composer in the organization's history.[1][2]