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Gabrielle Garo’s
A prodige of the great flautist Nestor Torres is resident of Brooklyn, NY, of Dominican
parents, Gabrielle Garo’ is a student of the flute, piccolo, alto, tenor,
and soprano saxophone. Having appeared on CBS, Brooklyn 45 TV, CBS’ “The Couch”
Morning how, Gabrielle is the 2015 International Women in Jazz Youth in Action Winner, the
2016 J. Marjory Jackson Scholarship Recipient, and has won a solo award in the Jazz at
Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington Regional Festival in Greenwich, CT, the Latin Grammy
Cultural Foundation Tuition Assistance Award, the A.F.J Leonard Silver Award, the Young
Academic Achiever Award, has been accepted into the National Junior Honor Society, The
National Honor Society for Dance Arts, and has participated in the world record breaking
event for the largest flute ensemble. She has studied with Nestor Torres, Kent Jordan,
Najee, Yosvany Terry, Jeff Lederer, Ted Nash, Keith Underwood, Keith Loftis, and Lorna
Myers, soloist at the Metropolitan Opera, and has performed with music greats, such as,
Larry Harlow, Esperanza Spalding, Christian McBride and his Big Band, Arturo Sandoval,
Candido Camero, Phoenix Rivera, Bobby Sanabria & his Multiverse Big Band, Arturo
O’Farrill and his Latin Jazz Orchestra, Kermit Ruffins, Craig Haynes, Ray Vega, Delfeayo
Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Papo Vazquez, Alex Diaz, and James Galway just to
name a few.
Gracing the stage at the Apollo, Gabrielle has performed for T.I. and as a requested
backdrop in promotion for his album and movie release, and will also be featured in Spike
Lee’s Season 2 of “She’s Gotta Have It.” In addition, she has performed in the South Florida
Dominican Jazz Festival, Minton’s, Symphony Space for “A Night of Afro-Dominican Jazz”
where she participated in honoring and remembering, Mario Rivera, Birdland, SOB’s, the
Copacabana Nightclub, the Allen/Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Steinway Hall,
the Jazz Loft Party, the Litchfield Jazz Festival-2012, 2013, and more.
Currently, Gabrielle is a graduate of LaGuardia High School, where she is now studying at,
The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music, in New York
City.