Connie Grossman

Multi-award-winning flutist Connie Grossman, born in Sleepy Hollow, New York, has performed throughout the U.S. and abroad and has studied and performed in Cuba. Classically trained, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in flute performance from SUNY Purchase and a Master of Arts in Teaching in music education from Lehman College. She performs as a Latin jazz and classical soloist and has played and recorded with many of the top groups in the Latin music scene including cuatro legend Yomo Toro; her own group, Charanga Pasion; Charanson; The Latin Jazz Coalition; Cocomama; Juan Carlos Formell; Companhia das Musicas; Conjunto Kathari; Charlie Donato Y SonIdeal. She is also a featured artist with SonSublime since 2000, appearing on their three most recent CDs. Grossman is the recipient of the Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO award in the music performance category for one of her original compositions, the New York Latin Music “Pionero” award and the Charanga LegendsLifetime Contribution to Charanga Music Award. She has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival and The SmithsonianInstitute, and has been featured in Clave, Latin Beat and Impacto magazines, where her article, “Charanga: Then and Now” was published. Grossman hasappeared with Lavar Burton on Reading Rainbow in a feature on jazz musicians aswell as other TV appearances. Most recently, she had the honor of being a featured performer along with Mike Manieri and Bernie Williams at the 2018 Pacheco Latin Jazz Festival at Lehman College. The flutist has taught instrumental music in public schools throughout the Bronx and Westchester County for over twenty-five years, is on the faculty of the Westchester SummerArts Music Center and is currently the Director of the Band program at Edgewood Elementary School in Scarsdale, New York. In December 2021, Grossman released her debut album as a solo artist, Chasing the Sunset, now available on all digital platforms.

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