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Terri Lyne Carrington
music director and drums

NEA Jazz Master, Terri Lyne Carrington, has become one of the giants of today’s jazz music. A three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning drummer, composer, producer, and educator, Carrington began her professional career at only ten years old and received a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music at the age of 11. She is the first female artist to ever win the GRAMMY Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, which she received for her 2013 work, “Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue.” Over the four-decade-plus span of her career, she has played with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Cassandra Wilson, Stan Getz, Al Jarreau and Esperanza Spalding, among countless other jazz luminaries.  In 2019, Carrington received the prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award as recognition of her important work in the field. She has curated musical presentations at Harvard University, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the John F. Kennedy Center, and has enjoyed multi-disciplinary collaborations with esteemed visual artists Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems. Her artistry and commitment to education earned her honorary doctorates from Manhattan School of Music and Berklee College of Music, where she currently serves as founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. She is also the artistic director for the Carr Center in Detroit.  To date, she has released eight albums and in 2019, Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science released their debut double album, Waiting Game, a project that elevates many current social justice issues. The album was nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award and won the 2020 Edison Award for jazz. It also won three awards in the 2020 Downbeat International Critics Poll for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Group of the Year.

Terri Lyne Carrington
music director and drums

NEA Jazz Master, Terri Lyne Carrington, has become one of the giants of today’s jazz music. A three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning drummer, composer, producer, and educator, Carrington began her professional career at only ten years old and received a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music at the age of 11. She is the first female artist to ever win the GRAMMY Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, which she received for her 2013 work, “Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue.” Over the four-decade-plus span of her career, she has played with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Cassandra Wilson, Stan Getz, Al Jarreau and Esperanza Spalding, among countless other jazz luminaries.  In 2019, Carrington received the prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award as recognition of her important work in the field. She has curated musical presentations at Harvard University, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the John F. Kennedy Center, and has enjoyed multi-disciplinary collaborations with esteemed visual artists Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems. Her artistry and commitment to education earned her honorary doctorates from Manhattan School of Music and Berklee College of Music, where she currently serves as founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. She is also the artistic director for the Carr Center in Detroit.  To date, she has released eight albums and in 2019, Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science released their debut double album, Waiting Game, a project that elevates many current social justice issues. The album was nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award and won the 2020 Edison Award for jazz. It also won three awards in the 2020 Downbeat International Critics Poll for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Group of the Year.