Summer Drum and Percussion Festival - Javier Diaz
Thu, Jun 28
|Croton Academy of Arts
Afro Cuban percussionist Javier Diaz has become one Broadway's most in demand musicians. Join him for a very special solo concert event right here in Croton-On-Hudson! FREE ADMISSION!!! Brought to you by the Simon Boyar School of Drums and Percussion and Latin Percussion.
Time & Location
Jun 28, 2018, 7:30 PM
Croton Academy of Arts, 8 Old Post Rd S, Croton-On-Hudson, NY 10520, USA
About the event
Javier Diaz is a percussionist with the American Symphony Orchestra and with several chamber music groups and Latin music groups in the New York Area. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York Perspectives Ensemble, Zankel Hall New Music Band, and Hilliard Ensemble. He has performed for Broadway's productions of Man of La Mancha, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Brooklyn, Phil Collins’s Tarzan, Guys and Dolls, The Wiz, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Rocky, In The Heights, The Lion King, and Gloria Estefan’s On Your Feet. His studio/film soundtrack credits include collaborations with jazz greats David Sanborn and Marcus Miller, ECM's Tituli by Stephen Hartke with the Hilliard Ensemble, Barbershop 3, several HBO films and many TV and radio commercials.
As an Afro-Cuban percussion specialist Diaz has appeared with: Miami Sound Machine, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller, Sean Kingston, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Shaka Kan, Patty LaBelle, Lazaro Galarraga's Afro-Cuban All Stars, percussionists Angel Luis Figueroa, Candido Camero, Román Diaz and Pedro Martinez, The Panamerican Jazz Band,…