The Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series at Cornell welcomes award-winning vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant to Bailey Hall for a performance on Friday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Salvant, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, is an artist celebrated for bringing historical depth, dramatic flair, and exceptional musical insight to jazz standards and original works. Classically trained and deeply rooted in jazz, blues, and folk traditions, Salvant also draws inspiration from musical theater and vaudeville, creating a repertoire that expands the boundaries of live performance.
She received three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for The Window, Dreams and Daggers, and For One To Love, and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album WomanChild. Additional accolades include winning the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010 and the Doris Duke Artist Award in 2020.
Recent Nonesuch Records releases include the two-time Grammy-nominated Ghost Song in 2022, and in 2023 the highly anticipated, two-time Grammy-nominated follow up Mélusine, an album mostly sung in French, along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl.
On September 19, 2025, Nonesuch released Oh Snap, an album comprised of 12 very personal songs that push back against constrictions of genre, composed and produced by Salvant and featuring longtime collaborators 2026 Grammy nominee Sullivan Fortner, Yasushi Nakamura, and Kyle Poole, who will perform with her at Bailey Hall.
Artist and program information, subscriptions, single tickets, and student memberships are available through the DMCCS website, cornellconcertseries.com.
Free evening parking is available at the Forest Home (37 Forest Home Dr.) and Hoy garages. More information and campus maps can be found at cornellconcertseries.com/parking.
The Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series has been hosting musicians and ensembles of international stature since 1903. Originally featuring Western classical artists, the series presented Ravi Shankar in 1987 and has since grown to encompass a broader spectrum of the world's great music. In 2025, the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts made a gift to Cornell University, renaming the long-standing Cornell Concert Series to the Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series.
