A New York Evening With Jon Batiste

The GRAMMY Museum® is thrilled to present an intimate conversation and performance with GRAMMY Award® winner Jon Batiste at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. The conversation will be moderated by the GRAMMY Museum’s Chief Curator & Vice President of Curatorial Affairs, Jasen Emmons, and will include a discussion about Jon’s career, musical influences and background, creative process, current and upcoming projects, multiple GRAMMY wins, and more. Following the conversation, Jon will perform a few songs.   

Jon Batiste is the first artist to be featured in the GRAMMY Museum’s newly announced New York City program series titled “A New York Evening With…” presented by City National Bank, which includes bringing a slate of the GRAMMY Museum’s renowned education and Public Programs to the East Coast in partnership with the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. 

ABOUT JON BATISTE:

One of the most prolific and versatile musicians of any generation, Jon Batiste has spent his career bringing music back to where it started — with the people. Jon was born in New Orleans into the legendary Batiste family, and later studied at the world-renowned Juilliard School in New York City. There, he established the Stay Human band which became famous for their musical virtuosity and their signature street performances called “love riots.” Batiste’s skills as an artist, coupled with his social advocacy, quickly made him one of the country’s most sought-out collaborators and performers, with appearances that include the GRAMMYs, Kennedy Center Honors, and the US Open. 

Since 2015, Jon has been bandleader and musical director of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on CBS. In 2018, he received a GRAMMY nomination for Best American Roots Performance and in 2020, he received two GRAMMY nods for albums he self-produced: Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard and Meditations (with Cory Wong). In 2020, Jon won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the Disney/Pixar film Soul, an honor he shared with fellow composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Jon’s work on Soul also earned him a Golden Globe, BAFTA, NAACP Image Award and a Critic’s Choice Award. Jon is the second black composer in history, after legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock, to win an Academy Award for composition. 

Devoted to the education and development of emerging musicians, Jon has led his own Social Music Residency and Mentoring program, sponsored by Chase, in addition to master classes across the world. He also serves as the Music Director of The Atlantic and Co-Artistic Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, in addition to being a board member for Sing For Hope.

Jon’s latest studio album, WE ARE, was released in March 2021 to overwhelming critical acclaim. Subsequently, he was nominated for eleven GRAMMYs across seven different categories, a first in GRAMMY history. Jon went on to win five of those GRAMMYs including Album of the Year. The versatility of the album which was envisioned by Batiste as he processed the tumultuous times of 2020, earned him praise by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and more. During Carnegie Hall’s 2021-2022 season, Batiste will curate a multi-concert series, which is set to include his American Symphony which serves as an homage to previous trailblazers who have made history at Carnegie such as Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson and Nina Simone.

Doors: 7:00 p.m.

Show Time: 7:30pm

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