Yacine Boulares is a French-Tunisian saxophonist, composer and educator based in Brooklyn. A graduate from the Paris National Conservatory and the New School for Jazz, a Fulbright laureate, he has been awarded the French American Jazz Exchange, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the Brooklyn Arts Council grants. In 2019 he’s an artist in residence at Joe’s Pub in NY and a 2020 NY voices grantee.
His work explores folk traditions of North and West Africa perceived through the prism of chamber music and Jazz. It seeks to reflect on social and political issues from an alternative perspective. Yacine is the founder of the Brooklyn collective AJOYO and of trio Abu Sadiya with Vincent Segal and Nasheet Waits.
Praised by Radio France International as “A Tunisian in New York, one of the most talented jazzmen of his generation”, he has composed, recorded and performed across the world with the likes of Placido Domingo, Tabou Combo, Vincent Segal, Nasheet Waits, Jesse Fischer and more.
Yacine is the co-founder of Habibi Festival an annual festival dedicated to music from the Middle East and North Africa.
More info: www.yacineboulares.com