Elio Villafranca: Florentina: Jazz Musician in New York

About Elio Villafranca: Florentina

Elio Villafranca: *Florentina* is a jazz performance project led by pianist and composer Elio Villafranca, presented in New York City at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Villafranca’s work reflects formal training and bandstand experience shaped across Afro-Caribbean and jazz lineages, with writing that treats rhythm as structure rather than ornament. The *Florentina* program frames that approach in a concert setting, using ensemble interplay to move between composed passages and open improvisation. His performances favor clarity over spectacle.