Boris Acosta-Jaramillo

Boris Acosta-Jaramillo is a pianist, composer, producer, improviser, and educator whose work moves across jazz, contemporary composition, and improvised music. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, he holds a Ph.D. in Music from the University of California San Diego, where his work brought together performance, composition, and research into improvisation and musical interaction. Acosta-Jaramillo has performed internationally and collaborated with artists including Yang Haisong, Annie Cheng, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Antony Burr, and Mark Dresser. His career also includes more than two decades as an educator, including serving as a jazz studies professor at Nanjing University of the Arts. As an artist and producer, his work explores the space between composition and improvisation, bringing together collaborative performance, spontaneous form, and the creative possibilities of the recording process.

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