WSHS Jazz Series Presents the Felipe Salles Quartet

A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Felipe Salles has been an active musician in the US since 1995, where he has worked and recorded with prominent jazz artists, including Randy Brecker, Paquito D’Rivera, David Liebman, Melissa Aldana, Lionel Loueke, Jerry Bergonzi, Chico Pinheiro, Magos Herrera, Sofia Rei, Yosvany Terry, Jovino Santos Neto, Oscar Stagnaro, Luciana Souza, and Bob Moses. He has toured extensively in Europe, North and South America, India, and Australia, as a sideman and as a leader of his own group.

Salles is a 2018 Guggenheim Foundation Composition Fellow, a 2021 South Arts Jazz Road Creative Residency Grant Fellowship recipient, a 2015 and 2023 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant winner. These are just a few of his many awards.

Salles has released ten critically acclaimed recordings as a leader from Departure (Tapestry, 2012) to Home is Here (Tapestry, 2023).

We were proud to have been one of the co-presenters of The New Immigrant Experience in 2023 with the Berkshire Immigrant Center and Berkshire Theatre Group at the Colonial Theatre.

Felipe Salles has a Masters and a Graduate Diploma in Jazz Performance from New England Conservatory, and a Doctorate in Jazz Arts Advancement from Manhattan School of Music. He is a Professor of Jazz and African American Music Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has taught since 2010.

He will be joined by other band members, to be announced later in the spring.