Performing at the Modlin Center for the Arts on February 23
Renowned jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant won the 2018 Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy® for Dreams and Daggers released in September. The album follows her 2016 Grammy®-winning release For One To Love.
The Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond is pleased to present Cécile McLorin Salvant on Friday, February 23, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in Camp Concert Hall, Booker Hall of Music.
Salvant was trained in opera and baroque in France, where she also began to use improvisation in her music. She plays songs that are rarely played and rarely recorded, trying to highlight their theatrical aspect. She sings in French and Spanish, as well as English, and composes instrumental and vocal pieces.
The New York Times writes that Salvant “sings clearly, with her full pitch range, from a pronounced low end to full and distinct high notes…Her voice clamps into each song, stretching words but not scatting; her face conveys meaning, representing sorrow or serenity like a silent movie actor.”
