Carlos Averhoff Jr.

Carlos Averhoff Jr has collaborated and played along side well known artists from the Jazz and Latin Jazz scenario, for instance, drummers Louis Hayes, Jimmy Cobb; Bob Moses ,Cuban drummer Horacio El Negro Hernandez; pianists Jason Moran, Chucho Valdes; Roberto Fonseca; saxophonists Dave Liebman, Greg Osby; Bill Pierce. After arriving to US, Carlos Averhoff Jr. continued his studies in Jazz Performance at Berklee College Of Music – bachelors degree graduated with Suma Cum Laude - and The New England Conservatory – Master Degree graduated with honors – Was recepient of numerous scholarly awards from among them the Charlie Parker Scholarship Award, the Woodwind Faculty Achievement Award, the North American Scholarship in Berklee College of Music, and meritorious music award at the New England Conservatory (NEC). He took instruction from Jazz luminaries Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Ed Tomassi, Frank Tiberi, Greg Osby, Bill Pierce, Terri Lyne Carrington, Joe Lovano, Jason Moran, Cecil McBee, Ran Blake, John McNeil and Donny McCaslin. Soon upon the completion of his studies, Carlos took a faculty position at Berklee’s City Music Program and the Concord Conservatory of Music. The music of Carlos Averhoff Jr. offers a new hybrid sound of modern Cuban Jazz, his compositions and arrangements masterfully painting a landscape of contemporary harmonies and rhythms from his native land,