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Gabrielle Garo is a young musician. She plays five instruments flute, piccolo, alto, tenor, & soprano saxophone. She went to Harlem School of the Arts, and performed with Harlem School of the Arts Jazz Band. While at Harlem School of the Arts she performed with  Wé McDonald, Matthew Whitaker, Dominique Gervais in the High School Band. Gabby is an alumni of the Juiliard Music Advancement Program, Middle School Jazz Academy at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Manhattan School of Music Summer Program and more.

She is an alumni of the Juilliard School Music Advancement Program and Middle School Jazz Academy at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Gabrielle is a graduate of LaGuardia High School. She is currently studying in New York City at, The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music.

Career
Gabrielle has played in the Young Afro Latin Jazz band with Arturo O'Farrill. She says that, "Harlem School of the Arts helped her to develop her talent". She has received a full scholarship at the Berklee College of Music Summer Performance Program. She has studied with Itai Kriss, Keith Underwood, Kent Jordan, Najee, Lorna Myers, Keith Loftis, Ted Nash, Jeff Lederer, and Nic Cowles. Some artists she has performed with Arturo O’Farrill, Arturo Sandoval, Ray Vega, Bobby Sanabria,Phoenix Rivera, Kermit Ruffins, Candido Camero, Jim Seeley, Papo Vazquez, Alex Diaz, Ivan Renta, Miguel Frasconi, and James Galway, and more.

She has performed at the Apollo theater in Harlem. She has also performed at the South Florida Dominican Jazz Festival, Symphony Space for “A Night of Afro-Dominican Jazz”, the Copacabana Nightclub in NYC, and the Allen/Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

2012 & 2013 - Performed at the Litchfield Jazz Festival 2013 - Performed live on CBS Morning Show "The Couch".

October 2017 - Gabrielle participated in a benefit performance at the Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village (NYC). The performance was to raise funds for musicians in Puerto Rico in need of instruments. The event was organized by Bobby Sanabria. Gabrielle shared the stage with many well known musicians, such as Jon Faddis and Bobby Sanabria.

November 2017 - Performed at the Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Club in New York City with the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band, celebrating the 60th anniversary of West Side Story

Awards & Honors

 * A solo award from the the Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington Regional Festival.
 * A.F.J Leonard Silver Award
 * 2015 - Winner of International Women in Jazz Youth in Action
 * 2016 - J. Marjory Jackson Scholarship Recipient
 * 2016 - Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation
 * Young Academic Achiever Award
 * National Junior Honor Society
 * The National Honor Society for Dance Arts