Miramar Commissioner Alexandra Davis and the Afro-Carib Festival
ALEXANDRA P. DAVIS was born in England and raised in Jamaica. She has spent most of her life in public service having worked for the Ministry of Agriculture in Kingston, Jamaica, The Capital Taxes office in London, England, and Miami- Dade County Government in Florida.
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Jazz Trailblazer Leon Foster Thomas
LEON FOSTER THOMAS is an international jazz musician and steel pan virtuoso. His music is a blend of his Caribbean roots with the harmonic and improvisational complexities of jazz, creating a lively and eclectic meld all his own.
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Michael Linville: Musician, Dean of Instrumental Performance at New World Symphony
Pianist, percussionist, conductor, arranger and educator, MICHAEL LINVILLE is currently the New World Symphony’s Dean of Chamber Music and Fellow Development, programming and coaching chamber music concerts throughout the Symphony’s 35-week season.
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Musician Etienne Charles Cannot Be Pigeon-Holed
Trinidad born ETIENNE CHARLES is a performer, composer and storyteller, who is continuously searching for untold stories and sounds with which to tell them.
His lush trumpet sound, varied compositional textures and pulsating percussive grooves enable him to invoke trance, soothing and exciting listeners while referencing touchy and sometimes controversial subjects in his music.
Violinist Samuel Marder, “Devils among Angels: A Journey from Paradise and Hell to Life.”
SAMUEL MARDER was born in 1930 in Chernovitz, Rumania, now Ukraine. His music studies began at the age of six. At age ten he won a prize which made him eligible to study in Moscow. World War II interrupted Marder’s brilliant beginning, and life changed completely. Young Samuel and his family were soon deported to a Nazi concentration camp.
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