Artist in Residence
The Cali School of Music’s Artist in Residence program brings distinguished, forward-thinking artists to campus for meaningful creative exchange with students, faculty, and the wider community. Through performances, masterclasses, conversations, workshops, and collaborative projects, resident artists offer students rare access to the ideas, practices, and professional experiences shaping today’s musical landscape. The program reflects Cali’s commitment to artistic excellence, innovation, and preparing students to thrive as versatile musicians and creative leaders.
CALI SCHOOL OF MUSIC 2026-27 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
TRUMPETER, COMPOSER, BANDLEADER, OPERA COMPOSER
Terence Blanchard
Fall 2026
Dates to be announced
Spring 2027
Dates to be announced
Terence Blanchard is an eight-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, composer, bandleader, opera composer, and two-time Oscar-nominated film composer. A 2024 NEA Jazz Master, Blanchard is recognized globally as one of jazz’s most influential and expansive artists, with a career that spans jazz, film, television, opera, Broadway, orchestral music, and his own ensembles.
Born in New Orleans, Blanchard launched his solo career as a bandleader in the 1990s and has since released 20 solo albums, earned 15 Grammy nominations, composed for more than 60 films, and created scores for over 20 Spike Lee projects, including BlacKkKlansman and Da 5 Bloods. His opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones made history as the first opera by an African American composer to premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, and both Fire Shut Up in My Bones and Champion received Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording.
Across every medium, Blanchard’s work is known for its beauty, urgency, and deep engagement with human rights, civil rights, racial justice, and the power of music to speak truth.
“Blanchard’s body of work is one of the broadest and most imposing of any living jazz musician.”
— New York Times
Terence Blanchard Gallery
“I’m not trying to say I’m here to try to correct the whole thing, I’m just trying to speak the truth.”
—Terence Blanchard
Questions?
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