Terence Blanchard

Terence Blanchard's career has brought him to many posts, including the executive artistic director of SFJAZZ and the first Black composer at The Metropolitan opera. To each of these and beyond, he's carried his perspectives on culture and how it operates. Just before his performance at the Exit Zero Jazz Fest, Blanchard sat down with The Late Set to discuss how culture flows, and what it means to lead from a place of service.

A celebration too honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Amina Claudine Myers, Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard and Willard Jenkins. Watch live on Sat., April 13 at 7:30 p.m. ET.

"The best thing about the Grammys is that we’re all together," Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboist in Imani Winds, said while accepting an award. Her pronouncement rings true in light of the breadth of classical artists in this year's winners circle.

The National Endowment for the Arts has selected Terence Blanchard, Willard Jenkins, Amina Claudine Myers and Gary Bartz for the prestigious honor.

As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, SFJAZZ has named a successor to founder Randall Kline: the distinguished trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard. They each discussed the handoff with WRTI's Nate Chinen.

There’s a devastating mano a mano confrontation at the heart of Terence Blanchard’s opera 'Champion,' and it might not be the one that you expect.

Terence Blanchard made history last season when his opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones was the first work by a Black composer staged by the Metropolitan Opera. And the Met has asked for more.

The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and The Crossing are among the winners in the classical field at the 65th Grammy Awards.

Terence Blanchard became the first Black composer to premiere an original opera at The Metropolitan Opera in 2021. Fire Shut Up in My Bones—an adaptation of New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s bestselling memoir about childhood trauma and its layered emotional fallout—opened the Met’s 2021-2022 season. Hear it on WRTI, Saturday, January 8th at 1 PM.

The composer's magnetically powerful Fire Shut Up in My Bones lands with a force of authenticity, a too-rare window into Black life in an operatic setting.