Miguel Zenón

Miguel Zenón is a Puerto Rican alto saxophonist, composer, band leader, music producer and educator. He is a multiple Grammy Award nominee, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate Degree in the Arts from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Zenón has built a distinguished career as a leader and accompanist, releasing fifteen albums under his own name and collaborating with some of the greatest names in jazz. He has given hundreds of lectures all over the world and is currently a faculty member in the Music & Theater Arts Department at MIT. In 2011 he founded Caravana Cultural, a program that organizes free-of-charge jazz concerts in the rural areas or Puerto Rico.