Presidio Sessions - Ila Cantor's Encanto

PRESIDIO SESSIONS – Friday Evenings at 6 pm

In the intimate atmosphere of a house concert, experience jazz, contemporary, and classical music, and enjoy opportunities to converse with performers and each other.Offered in partnership with the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.

lla Cantor is a young, dynamic, award-winning guitarist and composer. Although grounded in jazz, her music and playing challenges our contemporary categories of music. Her Encanto project showcases the charango, a guitar-like instrument most commonly heard in South American folk music genres. She has studied at the New School University in New York and the Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, as well as in Spain with renowned Argentine composer and pianist Guillermo Klein, and with mentors such as John Scofield, John Abercrombie and Ben Monder. Her music has been featured in the award-winning films Horizons and Blast.

Ila Cantor (charango, voice) | Ben Goldberg (clarinet) | Rob Reich (accordion) | John Wiitala (bass) | Hamir Atwal (drums)

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