Fall 2024 Concert Series

When: November 23 on a Saturday

Where: @CROMA Arlington Street Church (351 Boylston st. Boston. MA. 02116)

Time: Starts at 7pm

Artist Social Media: Roella Oloro Instagram

Artist Info: Roella Oloro is a British-born composer and multi-instrumentalist of Nigerian and Jamaican descent. One of her first pieces for big band, “Cruisin’” (written at age 18) was played at the Royal Albert Hall in 2016. Her composition for Symphonic Wind Orchestra “La Voyage de la Riviere;” premiered at the Berklee Performance Center in December 2022. In Summer 2018, she was offered a full scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music. Roella Oloro has had exceptional professors such as Terri Lyne-Carrington, Joanne Brackeen, Tia Fuller, Esperanza Spalding, Patrice Rushen, Wayne Shorter, Melissa Aldana, Helen Sung, Camille Thurman, Rafael Zaldivar and many others. During the pandemic, she was a BBC Young Musician 2020 Semi-finalist and a Jazz South UK grant recipient.  She recently won the ISJAC (International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers) prize for Emerging Black Composers. In November 2022, she booked and completed a London Mini-tour with her piano trio from Berklee that coincided with the London Jazz Festival. In 2023 Roella performed at Capitol Turnaround in Washington DC at the SHEROCKS 2023 showcase. With her trio that recorded and toured her first EP “Sentient Sounds,” she traveled to Milan, Italy to do a mini-tour with her all-black female group the “Diasporan Queens".