Carlos Averhoff Jr.

With my Theo Wanne™ Ambika, I found the timber and color of sound I always wanted. The mouthpiece is very versatile, allowing me to play different styles of music comfortably. I’m very happy with this mouthpiece.

Carlos Averhoff Jr is a Latin Grammy nominated Cuban tenor saxophonist with the album Buena Vista Social Club Presenta a Omara Portuondo. He is a contemporary Afro-Cuban Jazz composer and educator at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory. All About Jazz names Carlos a “dynamic fresh new voice on the saxophone” and Latin Jazz Network portrays his playing as “quite extraordinarily expressive and beautiful,” and further adds, “Carlos Averhoff Jr is a musician who is renowned as a virtuoso soloist.” His album Iresi (2015) was very well received by Jazz critics in the US and internationally. As a band-leader of Iresi, Averhoff, Jr has performed in important venues in US, Europe and Latin America. Soon upon the completion of his studies at Berklee (Suma Cum Laude) and New England Conservatory (with Honors). Carlos took a faculty position at Berklee’s City Music Program, the Concord Conservatory of Music, and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. Carlos has collaborated with several artists professionally among them drummer Louis Hayes, Jimmy Cobb, Bob Moses; Cuban drummer Horacio El Negro Hernandez; pianists Jason Moran, Chucho Valdes, Roberto Fonseca; Saxophonists Dave Liebman, Greg Osby, Bill Pierce, Paquito de Rivera among others. Averhoff has collaborated with an array of artists including Bob Moses, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Chucho Valdes, Bill Pierce, Isaac Delgado, and Buena Vista Social Club, among many others.