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Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter, pianist and composer. A jazz musician, he has also composed film scores and operas. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed on more than fifty.
Dad adds: “The one constant in Wayne’s music is his ability to calm the restlessness in all of us.”. Born in New Orleans in 1962, Blanchard began playing piano at the age of 5. He added trumpet three years later. In summer music camps, he became friends with Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis. After a teenage stint touring with the ...
Blanchard received an Oscar nomination for his original score for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. He was also BAFTA nominated for his original music for the film. He won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for writing “Blut Und Boden (Blood and Soil)” a track from BlacKkKlansman.
Oct 8, 2014 · Terence Blanchard was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on October 8, 2014. Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Oliver Blanchard was born on March 13, 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Wilhelmina and Joseph Oliver Blanchard. Blanchard began playing piano at the age of five, but switched to trumpet three years later.
Jan 6, 2022 · On September 27, 2021, Blanchard became the first Black composer to premiere an original opera at The Metropolitan Opera.
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Sep 27, 2021 · Terence Blanchard, a celebrated jazz trumpeter and film composer, makes history as the Metropolitan Opera season opens.
Dec 16, 2021 · In 2021, Blanchard’s opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones became the first operatic work by an African American to composer to be presented at New York’s Metropolitan Opera since its founding in 1839. Terence Oliver Blanchard, Sr., who has composed scores for more than 40 films, continues teaching at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, where he ...
