Concert: Miguel Zenón Trio at NYC's Hispanic Society of America
Community calendar Conc e rt: Miguel Zenón Trio Featuring: Uptown Arts Stroll 2009 honoree Miguel Zenón playing new compositions with arrangements by Puerto Rican and Cuban composers. Miguel Zenón, saxophone Ricky Rodriguez , bass Henry Cole , drums Washington Heights resident Miguel Zenón was born and raised in San Juan , Puerto Rico . There, he studied classical saxophone at the famed Escuela Libre de Música. It was at the Berklee School of Music that his formal jazz training began. Zenón went on to attend the Manhattan School of Music and received a Masters in Saxophone Performance. In 2008 Zenón received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation . Later that year he was one of the 25 distinguished individuals chose to receive the MacArthur “Genius” Grant. The fellowship is a prestigious addition in Zenón’s fast-rising career fusing jazz with various forms of music from Puerto Rico , like bomba and jíbara. To date, he has four albums of his o