Christian Sands — Steinway Artist and multi Grammy Nominee — is a jazz force. His meteoric rise in the jazz world already includes performances with the legendary Oscar Peterson and Dr. Billy Taylor.  He met Dr. Billy Taylor at the Jazz in July program in 2006, and formed an immediate connection.  Dr. Taylor dubbed him his protégé, and Christian has followed in his mentor’s footsteps by encouraging, inspiring and advocating for the preservation and history of jazz.  He teaches and promotes the passion and richness of jazz to young people as well as to mature audiences.  In 2015 he started the Jazz Kids of Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark, and he also teaches at Jazz in July, where he is an alumnus. An in demand composer and arranger, Sands invents and re-invents himself with sonorities which define each moment, rhythms which impel his music forward, structures which are surprising and fascinating — and never for a moment un-musical.  He personifies the rising musicality and spiritual aspirations of a singularly gifted musical soul.  “To whom much is given, much is expected.”  Christian Sands doesn’t disappoint.