Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet
Friday | February 13 2026 | 7:30 pm
BRIDGES
The winner of 16 Grammy Awards as well as the NEA Jazz Masters Award, National Medal of the Arts and the Kennedy Center’s Living Jazz Legend Award, the celebrated clarinetist, saxophonist and composer Paquito D’Rivera is “the consummate multinational ambassador, creating and promoting a cross-culture of music that moves effortlessly among jazz, Latin and Mozart” (National Endowment of the Arts). “A startling innovator” (Los Angeles Times), D’Rivera is “a musician with both breathtaking virtuosity and imaginative brilliance” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Featuring the John J. Cali School of Music Quartet and musicians from Kaufman Music Center's Lucy Moses School.
