Lolivone De La Rosa Quintet

About

Lolivone de la Rosa is a Puerto Rican guitarist, composer, bandleader, educator, and arts administrator based in New York City. Since relocating in 2021, she has become an active presence in the city’s jazz scene, performing at venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, Smalls, Mezzrow, The Jazz Gallery, Ornithology, and NJPAC, as well as festivals such as the Montclair Jazz Festival, Caramoor Jazz Festival, and Cola Jazz Festival. She has shared the stage with artists including Paquito D’Rivera, Pedrito Martínez, Terri Lyne Carrington, Je???? “Tain” Watts, Peter Bernstein, and Nona Hendryx. Her debut album, Jewels, features original compositions blending bebop, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and contemporary improvisation, with collaborators including Ingrid Jensen, Ned Goold, Luis Perdomo, John Benítez, and Je???? “Tain” Watts. The album has been described as an “uncommonly accomplished debut” by Ted Panken. As an educator, she teaches at the Jazz Academy at Jazz at Lincoln Center and has held positions at Berklee College of Music and New York University, o????ering workshops across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In arts administration, she is Education Program Coordinator at the New York Philharmonic and previously worked with Next Jazz Legacy, supporting initiatives that expand access to music education.