Lolivone de la Rosa (July 7, 1993) is a guitarist, composer, producer and educator from Puerto Rico based in New York City since 2021.
Although new to the New York City scene, de la Rosa has already headlined and performed some of the city's leading venues, such as The Jazz Gallery, Birdland, Smalls Jazz Club and Ornithology Jazz Club. Upon her arrival to the city, de la Rosa held a 2-year residency at Casa Mezcal NYC, where she featured a stellar lineup including Akiko Tsuruga, Pat Bianchi, John Benítez, Pablo Menares, Dan Martínez, Alvaro Benavides, Marvin Diz, Edsel Gómez and many more. She has also performed alongside NEA Jazz Master and mentor Terri Lyne Carrington, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Paquito D’ Rivera, Frank Vignola, Steve Cardenas and Pedrito Martínez. De la Rosa is now focused on writing music for her working organ quartet, featuring organist Brian Charette, tenor saxophonist Ned Goold, and drummers Juan Chiavassa & Sam Bolduc, with whom she has debuted some of her original works at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston and The Jazz Gallery in New York City.
De la Rosa currently occupies the guitar chair in the Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) blues workshop band, led by Seton Hawkins, and collaborates with a number of artists including Willerm Delisfort, Roxy Coss and Goussy Celestine. She has traveled to Chicago, Connecticut and Washington, DC to represent the JALC on the road educational program.
De la Rosa attended Berklee College of Music (‘21) on a full-tuition scholarship, where she pursued a double major degree in Guitar Performance and Contemporary Writing & Production. Shortly after graduating, she joined the Guitar Sessions faculty at Berklee, where she taught fretboard harmony. In the Fall of 2022, de la Rosa was invited to join the New York University (NYU) Tisch School of Arts faculty, where she taught music theory. De la Rosa has also given several masterclasses in jazz guitar, improvisation and rhythm section at higher education institutions such as, Binghamton University (New York), JAZZUV (Mexico) and the Conservatorio de Música in Puerto Rico.
De la Rosa is currently the program manager of Next Jazz Legacy: a program that supports emerging women and non-binary artists in jazz, under the Artistic Directorship of NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington and major funding from the Mellon Foundation.
De la Rosa holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering (Cum Laude) from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (‘17).
Global Arts & Music Venue
In the midst of the pandemic, de la Rosa created the Global Arts & Music Venue - a virtual platform that builds bridges between artists and their audience through the technology available to us today.
In 2021, de la Rosa produced the 1st edition of the Global Arts & Music Venue Jazz Fest. The 3-day virtual event showcased the talents of renowned global artists while offering educational opportunities for young musicians.
Its impressive lineup of performance artists included Terri Lyne Carrington, John Patitucci, Kenny Werner, Larry Goldings, Melissa Aldana, Peter Bernstein, Sullivan Fortner, Lage Lund, Alexa Tarantino, Gilad Hekselman, and Tom Oren.
She has also produced a series of masterclasses through GAMV featuring George Coleman, Larry Goldings and Joe Farnsworth.