Composer, singer and visual artist, Cécile McLorin Salvant, is passionate about storytelling and exploring connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions, theater, jazz and Baroque music. She is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, power dynamics, twists and humor, who was once described as “a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings” by the late, great Jessye Norman.
Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010 and received Grammy Awards for three consecutive albums: The Window, Dreams and Daggers and For One To Love. In 2020 she received the MacArthur fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award. Her debut and follow up Nonesuch Records projects, Ghost Song (2022) and Mélusine (2023), each received two Grammy nominations. Salvant’s Ogresse, arranged by Darcy James Argue, is a musical fable in the form of a cantata that blends several styles of composition resulting in an expansive sonic landscape. Her new album, Oh Snap, was released in 2025 on Nonesuch Records.