Andrés Jaramillo – A Journey of Immigrants

Colombian American pianist Dr. Andrés Jaramillo is our Leonard Stein Resident Artist for 2024/25. Dr. Jaramillo specializes in the performance of music by contemporary LatinX composers from Latin America and the US. Every composer on this program (including six world premieres and three 30 for 30 compositions) is or was an immigrant. Dr. Jaramillo explores, through these solo piano works, the myriad emotions, perspectives, and approaches inherent in the immigrant experience, intertwining the composers’ own cultural backgrounds with those of their new homes. Dr. Jaramillo will perform new compositions by 30 for 30 composers Paola Márquez, Jorge Salazar and Josh Rodriguez.

Please join Dr. Jaramillo and composers Marquez, Salazar and Rodriguez for a free pre-concert Q&A at 7:00 PM in Thayer Hall before the concert.  The panel will discuss the emotional experiences of immigrant people as represented in Dr. Marquez’ composition Five Etudes on the Immigrant’s Season, and how they influence the cultural and creative lives of new arrivals in the US. These stages are sometimes expressed as honeymoon, frustration, depression, adjustment and acceptance.