Néstor Torres

Nestor Torres performing for the Dalai Lama at Temple Emanu-El (Miami Beach, Florida) in 2010

Néstor Torres[1] is a jazz flautist born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1957.[2] He took flute lessons at age 12 and began formal studies at the Escuela Libre de Música, eventually attending Puerto Rico’s Inter-American University. At 18, he moved to New York with his family. Torres went on to study both jazz and classical music at the Mannes College of Music in New York and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, among other places.

He moved to Miami in 1981, and signed with PolyGram, where he released Morning Ride in 1989. His major label debut climbed quickly to the top of the Billboard Contemporary Jazz charts and soon brought him widespread acclaim. Tragedy struck a year later when an accident in a celebrity boat race left him with eighteen fractured ribs, two broken clavicles and a collapsed lung. His record company dropped him, he and his wife divorced, and his home was nearly repossessed.

Nestor Torres playing at the World Music Concert 2007

Torres is also a practitioner of Nichiren Buddhism and a longtime member of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.[3]

In 2007, Torres played at the World Music Concert during One World Week 2007 at the University of Warwick.


Albums

References

  1. ↑ Ruth Fernández muere víctima de un “shock” séptico y neumonía. Patricia Vargas. El Nuevo Dia. Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Published 9 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Nancy Ann Lee (July–August 1999). "Nestor Torres". JazzTimes.
  3. ↑ Interview Nestor Torres

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