Cécile McLorin Salvant ^

Artists

Vocals Cécile McLorin Salvant Piano Sullivan Fortner

Guitar Marvin Sewell Flute Alexa Tarantino Bass Yasushi Nakamura Percussion Keita Ogawa

CHARLESTON GAILLARD CENTER Martha and John M. Rivers Performance Hall

June 10, 7:30pm

1 hour, 30 minutes Performed without an intermission

CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT (vocals) is a composer, singer, and visual artist. Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010. She has received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Albums on three consecutive releases—The Window, Dreams and Daggers, and For One to Love. Her latest album Ghost Song was released on March 4, 2022, to critical acclaim. In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur Fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, of a French mother and Haitian father, she started classical piano studies at age five, sang in a children’s choir at age eight, and started classical voice lessons as a teenager. Salvant received a bachelor’s degree 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.

Sponsored by Wells Fargo

Made possible in part by the Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Foundation.

This performance is made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

Spoleto Festival USA is proud to present this performance with the support of the Charleston Gaillard Center.