Antonio Sánchez

Since arriving in New York City in 1999, multi-Grammy winning drummer, composer, and bandleader Antonio Sanchéz has made himself an indispensable part of the international jazz discussion. Though he has appeared on hundreds of recordings from a wide range of musicians, he is best known for his nine-album working relationship with guitarist Pat Metheny. Further, he has worked as a composer in film and television. He wrote the Grammy-winning original score for the 2014 Oscar-awarded film Birdman, and has also scored the Epix TV series Get Shorty. He has issued a dozen widely acclaimed albums under his own name including 2007's Migration, 2014's Three Times Three, 2015's Meridian Suite, 2017's Grammy-winning sociopolitical electronica & drums exploration Bad Hombre, 2018's Channels of Energy with the WDR Big Band, 2019's Lines in the Sand, and 2022's Shift (Bad Hombre, Vol. 2).