Enrique Márquez Named Director of Music at Interlochen Center for the Arts
Márquez joins Interlochen from the Harvard Department of Music, where he oversaw Music Department concerts and events.by Chloe Rabinowitz
Interlochen Center for the Arts announced today that Enrique Márquez has been named Director of Music. In this role, Márquez will lead music programming, pedagogy, and curricula at Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen Online, and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. Márquez begins his new role June 1. An accomplished educator, arts leader, musician, and Interlochen alumnus whose career in the arts spans continents and cultures, Enrique brings a unique global perspective to this position, said Interlochen Center for the Arts President Trey Devey. We re thrilled that he will return to Interlochen to energize and guide our music programs into the future.
Oh and Sorey aren t mere collaborators or accompanists; they re educators and composers in their own rights. Of Sorey s drumming, Iyer cites a life-sustaining kind of magic. And of Oh s bass playing, Her awareness of and relation to pulse, it s like micro-detail, he says. Those qualities and more can be found on
Uneasy, the trio s first studio record, which drops April 9 on ECM Records. The album is a mix of topical material Children of Flint with Iyer originals ( Combat Breathing ) and standards ( Night and Day ) from deep in their wheelhouse.
Most importantly, Iyer considers the pair to be his musical family; together, they re his stronghold through a racially and sociopolitically turbulent time. And with the tragic Atlanta spa shootings in the rearview, the cover where the three musicians names float around an out-of-focus Statue of Liberty is a side-eyed glance at what it means to be an American.