—  BIO  —

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Gabrielle Garo’ is a multi-instrumentalist, playing the flute, piccolo, alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones. A scholarship recipient of the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation, she was an ambassador for the 2018 Latin Grammy Awards, and was a presenter alongside Grammy winner, Ricky Martin in the 2019 Latin Grammy Awards. She is the 2015 International Women in Jazz Youth in Action Winner, amongst various other awards, including a solo award in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington Regional Festival, the A.F.J Leonard Silver Award, and the Young Academic Achiever Award. She 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 is featured in a Tiny Desk Concert with Ab-Soul, and has recently been apart of Lizzo’s The Special Tour ’23. In December, she will be making her debut with KAROL G in Medellín, Colombia.

Gabrielle has performed with Beyoncé, opening the 2022 Oscar Awards, and with Lizzo, opening The 62nd GRAMMY Awards and 2022 BET Awards. Having performed with Chloe X Halle at the 2021 Global Citizen Festival, she has shared the stage with Robert Glasper and the LA Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and was a panelist on the Grammy Museum’s 2021 Business & Performance Panel for the Grammy in the Schools Festival. Featured on the 2018 Grammy nominated album, “West Side Story Reimagined,” with the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band, Gabrielle is apart of the big band’s latest album, “Vox Humana.”

A graduate of LaGuardia High School, Gabrielle has studied with Najee, Nestor Torres, Kent Jordan, Yosvany Terry, Jeff Lederer, Ted Nash, Keith Underwood, Keith Loftis, and Lorna Myers, vocalist at the Metropolitan Opera. She has joined the Christian McBride Big Band on their first European tour, and has also performed with additional music greats such as, Jennifer Hudson, Black Thought, Eddie Palmieri, Larry Harlow, Esperanza Spalding, Arturo Sandoval, Candido Camero, Phoenix Rivera, Arturo O’Farrill and his Latin Jazz Orchestra, Kermit Ruffins, Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, and James Galway, just to name a few.

Gabrielle has recorded with Jon Batiste as part of a 2021 NBA Playoff commercial, recorded on his “Live at Electric Lady” exclusive Spotify album, and was Principal Flute for his ‘American Symphony’ debut at Carnegie Hall. She has performed for and with T.I. as a requested backdrop in promotion for his album and movie release, and has appeared on The Today Show, CBS, Brooklyn 45 TV, CBS’ “The Couch” Morning Show, and in Season 2 of Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It.” Gabrielle was featured in the 2018 South Florida Dominican Jazz Festival with Rafelito Mirabal and Paquito D’Rivera; In 2020 she conducted an interview with Mr. D’Rivera through Jazz at Lincoln Center, where she is an Assistant Band Director and private lesson instructor for the organization’s Middle School Jazz Academy.

Gabrielle has performed at many music festivals and venues around the globe, including, Madison Square Garden, the Bern Jazz Festival, the Apollo Theater, NJPAC, the Kennedy Center, the 2015 South Florida Dominican Jazz Festival, Minton’s Playhouse, Symphony Space for “A Night of Afro-Dominican Jazz” where she participated in honoring and remembering Mario Rivera; Birdland Jazz Club, SOB’s, the Copacabana Nightclub, The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Steinway Hall, The Jazz Loft Party, the 2012 and 2013 Litchfield Jazz Festival, and more.

Gabrielle is a graduate of The New School, obtaining her Undergraduate Degree in Jazz Performance (‘19), and Master’s Degree in Arts Management & Entrepreneurship (‘20).