Alexa Tarantino Quartet

Description

Director of the Rockport Jazz Workshop, Alexa Tarantino is an award-winning, vibrant, young jazz saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer, and educator. Tarantino performs regularly as a leader and sidewoman in a wide variety of ensembles and genres including Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Cécile McLorin Salvant’s OGRESSE, among many more. Currently on faculty for the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Youth Programs, she holds adegrees from The Juilliard School and Eastman School of Music.