MIAMI | The Adrienne Arsht Heart for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter) and the Dranoff 2 Piano Basis (@dranoff2piano) are proud to current PIANO SLAM 2024 on April 11, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. within the Heart’s Knight Live performance Corridor. Going down throughout Nationwide Poetry Month, the occasion options Miami’s high teen poets who will share their unique spoken phrase mash-ups paired with classical and hip-hop music across the theme, “My Music, Miami, All We Can Save – Rhythms & Writings of Restoration,” and set to “Suite Afro Cubana to Lico Jimenez” created by the legendary Cuban artist, Chucho Valdés.
Admission to PIANO SLAM 2024 is free*. First-Entry Passes, which give friends early entry to common admission seating, may be reserved for the efficiency now. Reserve passes on-line at arshtcenter.org by calling the Adrienne Arsht Heart field workplace at 305- 949-6722.
PIANO SLAM 2024 THEME
In its seventeenth 12 months, PIANO SLAM options stay musical performances and program alternatives for college kids, households and lecturers. This 12 months’s focus facilities on the historical past of artists uncared for by way of cultural suppression. The chosen musical piece for this theme is “Suite Afro Cubana to Lico Jimenez,” Chucho Valdés’ composition devoted to reclaiming the legacy of Afro-Cuban composers and musicians who’ve been unjustly missed. The poetry competitors will broaden to incorporate scholar music and soundscapes that ought to be safeguarded for future generations. It should additionally embrace writing workshops for educators that may embrace the inspiration of music and the sounds of our surroundings.
“I’m so proud that my piece ‘Suite Afro Cubana to Lico Jimenez’ was chosen to be a part of Piano Slam 2024. This program and its younger technology of poets will assist us preserve alive Lico’s title and legacy in our tradition,” says Chucho Valdés.
In a profession spanning greater than 60 years, each as a solo artist and bandleader, Valdés has distilled components of the Afro-Cuban music custom, jazz, classical music, rock and extra, right into a deeply private fashion. Winner of seven GRAMMY® and 6 Latin GRAMMY® Awards, Valdés obtained a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Science in 2023 and was additionally inducted into the Latin Songwriters Corridor of Fame.
Showcasing Miami’s Younger Poets
“PIANO SLAM 2024 is a dynamic convergence of Miami’s younger poets and the rhythmic legacy of Chucho Valdés, weaving collectively spoken phrase and music in a celebration of restoration, inclusion and the enduring energy of inventive expression,” says Carlene Sawyer, Piano Slam creator and producer.
PIANO SLAM presents stay concert events, poets, scientists and hip-hop spoken phrase to teenagers in Miami’s center and highschool lecture rooms culminating in a countywide poetry competitors based mostly on the function of music of their lives. Out of 1000’s of artistic submissions, 16 semifinalists are chosen to carry out within the Grand Finals live performance and competitors on the Arsht Heart’s Knight Live performance Corridor stage. Prizes of $1,000 are awarded to the highest scholar poets.
For the previous 11 years, PIANO SLAM has included a STEAM monitor. As well as, it has taken college students and their lecturers to music performances, offered trainer workshops, environmental science analysis actions, and citizen science subject journeys by college students to check environmental points impacting their lives.
Bridging the Artistic Divide
For over a decade, the Dranoff 2 Piano Basis’s PIANO SLAM has been bridging the artistic divide between teenage music fans {and professional} efficiency artists throughout Miami-Dade County, from Hialeah to the seashores and Miami Gardens to Homestead.
The occasion is co-presented with the Adrienne Arsht Heart and sponsored by a few of Miami’s most revered establishments. This contains Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade County Public Colleges, Books & Books, The Kids’s Belief, and the Miami HEAT.
PIANO SLAM is directed by Tanisha Cidel with music path by Martin Bejerano. PIANO SLAM‘s wildly fashionable County-wide music-based poetry competitors has labored with greater than 150,000 Miami-Dade Public center and highschool college students making classical music enjoyable and an inspiration for their very own artistic writing. Further musicians embrace: Anthony “Tony” Laurencio, DJ and the New Canon Chamber Collective for the classical ensemble.
