• Thursday | March 3 | 2:00 PM
• Wortham Theatre at Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Rice University

Mentors in Music Master Class with Tyshawn Sorey

Presented by DACAMERA and the Shepherd School of Music

Mentors in Music is a series of master classes in which Houston’s most talented student musicians and composers have an opportunity to work directly with DACAMERA guest artists.

2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is celebrated for his extraordinary ability to blend composition and improvisation in his work, while also offering
incomparable virtuosity, and effortless mastery of highly complex scores. He has performed globally with his own ensembles, as well as alongside industry titans including John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Vijay Iyer, Jason Moran, King Britt, Claire Chase, Roscoe Mitchell, and Steve Lehman, among many others. As a 2017 MacArthur Fellow and a 2018 United States Artists Fellow, the bar is set high for Tyshawn Sorey’s continued evolution and success. His composition Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), commissioned by DACAMERA and Rothko Chapel, was honored as a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Adding to his reputation as a multi-faceted talent, Downbeat Magazine recognized Mr. Sorey with its 2023 Critics Poll Award as a Rising Star Producer, while frequently placing him near the top of its composer and drum set lists. Other recent accolades include the Fromm Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and the Koussevitzsky Prize.