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Yilian Cañizares – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival!
Yilian Cañizares – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival!
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Yilian Cañizares takes part in a unique lyrical creation around Iphigénie en Tauride
Yilian Cañizares takes part in a unique lyrical creation around Iphigénie en Tauride
the award for « Best Fusion Album » at Cubadisco 2026
the award for « Best Fusion Album » at Cubadisco 2026
Vitamina Y is available
Vitamina Y is available
VITAMINA Y
New album
”No, it's not just another "world music" album ready to dissolve its uniqueness in lukewarm marketing. Here, the Cuban violinist engages in a rare exercise in syncretism, mixing, blending, and fusing everything that crosses her mind and fingers. Incandescent jazz, classical rigor, jigs, Afro-Cuban rhythms, Yoruba mysticism… Vitamina Y tastes like a raw elixir, far removed from the sugary, sweetened pills that the pharmaceutical or music industry usually serves us.
DjoloReviewed Vitamina Y and "Nuevo Ciclo"
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Biography
Yilian Cañizares is one of the most captivating violinists, singers, and composers on today’s contemporary music scene. Without ever betraying her roots, she masterfully fuses jazz, classical music, and Afro-Cuban rhythms, all carried by a voice that seems to come from another world. Few artists, whether on stage or in the studio, possess the level of virtuosity, charisma, and versatility that defines Yilian—seamlessly blending the technical rigor of classical violin, the expressive freedom of jazz, and the rich sonic palette of her native Havana, Cuba.
Her love for music emerged at an early age. At just four years old, she began studying violin and piano, and by fourteen, she earned a scholarship to study in Caracas. In 2000, she moved to Fribourg, Switzerland, to continue her training at the conservatory. Later in Lausanne, she collaborated with various ensembles and founded the quartet Ochumare, with which she won at the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition in 2008. Since then, her career has been in continuous ascent.
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She has performed throughout Europe, as well as in Japan, China, the US, Turkey, Brazil, and Cuba.
Notably in Paris: Zenith, Accor Arena, Olympia, Trianon, Philharmonie de Paris, but also: Elbphilharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican London, Paleo, Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Miami, London Jazz Festival…
Private Event
Geneve (CH)
16.09.2026
Tempo Latino
Vic Fezensac (FR)
02.08.2026
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Santa Cruz (US)
28.07.2026
SFJAZZ - Joe Henderson Lab
San Francisco (US)
26.07.2026
Stanford Jazz
California (US)
25.07.2026
Stanford
California (US)
19-24.07.2026
Nuits de Fourvière
Lyon (FR)
11.07.2026
Jazz In The Park
Roumanie (RO)
07.06.2026
Jazzhaus
Freiburg (DE)
17.05.2026
BIX
Stuttgart (DE)
16.05.2026
Unterfahrt
München (DE)
15.05.2026
Jumeaux Jazz Club
Lausanne (CH)
14.05.2026
Auditorio
Espinho (P)
09.05.2026
Théâtre de la Maison du Peuple
Millau (FR)
05.05.2026
Cube 521
Luxemburg (LU)
18.04.2026
Global Arts Live GALA
Crystal Ballroom (Boston), US
11.04.2026
Global Arts Live
Crystal Ballroom (Boston), US
10.04.2026
Coolidge Auditorium
Washington (US)
09.04.2026
Keystone Korner
Baltimore (US)
08.04.2026
Blue Note
New York (US)
06.04.2026
ZDF Morgenshow
Berlin (DE)
16.03.2026
Rehearsal
Val Thorens (FR)
11.03.2026
Rehearsal
Val Thorens (FR)
10.03.2026
SF Jazz
San Francisco, US
06.03.2026
📸 Lives : Lauren Pasche • Photoshoot : Franck Socha.
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