Omar Sosa & Yilian Canizares - AGUAS Trio
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Monday, Mar 2, 2026 7pm
Location
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320 Cedar St
Details
Composer-pianist-bandleader Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today. True to his Afro-Cuban origins, Sosa fashions a spirited vision of uncompromising artistic generosity that embraces humanity at large. Nominated for seven GRAMMY awards and twice for the BBC World Music Awards, Sosa received a lifetime achievement award from the Smithsonian Associates in Washington, DC in 2003 for his contribution to the development of Latin jazz in the United States.
Yilian Cañizares is one of the most captivating violinists, singers, and composers on today’s contemporary music scene. Without ever losing connection with her roots, she masterfully fuses jazz, classical music, and Afro-Cuban rhythms, all carried by a voice that seems to come from another world. Few artists, whether on stage or in the studio, possess the level of virtuosity, charisma, and versatility that defines Cañizares – seamlessly blending the technical rigor of classical violin, the expressive freedom of jazz, and the rich sonic palette of her native Havana, Cuba.
Omar Sosa & Yilian Cañizares’ AGUAS Trio came together with their 2018 recording Aguas. Mixing Afro-Cuban, western classical music, and jazz, Aguas is a beautiful and inventive recording and touring project. The recording is dedicated to Water, and especially to Oshun, the Goddess of Love and Mistress of Rivers in the Lucumí tradition of Yoruba ancestry known in Cuba as Santería – a spiritual practice important to both artists. As water is synonymous with life, and energy, and strength, and space, the music on the album is inspired by the important influences of water – its hidden powers, its infinite transmutations, and its relentless destruction and creation.
