First Baptist Church of Columbia

JAZZ SERIES SPECIAL EVENT!

{Trés} is a chamber music trio founded in 2010. The group started as a collaborative project created by McKnight Artist Fellow José Antonio Zayas Cabán, with the purpose of performing transcriptions for two saxophones and piano. The trio has since performed chamber music by a wide range of composers, traveling to Central America, Caribbean and throughout the United States and is featured in José’s first album, Centennial (2020). Recently, {Trés} finished a national tour titled “A Tribute to Puerto Rico,” devoted in part to help raise funds and awareness about Puerto Rico and the island’s efforts to recover from Hurricanes Irma’s and María’s dual devastation. As the recipient of a 2019 New Music USA Project Grant, José and {Trés} are collaborating with a number of composers including alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón, a 2008 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and Guggenheim Award recipient who has made two previous Jazz Series appearances, once with fellow Puerto Rican saxophonist David Sanchez, and on another occasion leading his own quartet.

{Trés}, with Zenón as a featured soloist, was in the midst of recording new compositions when the pandemic hit. Nearly two years later, they will re-convene to complete the project centered on the Puerto Rican musical traditions and appear as a Jazz Series special event.