Branford performs with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

For the first time, Branford performs the John Adams' Saxophone Concerto with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Edwin Outwater. It was presented over two nights, first in Tokyo at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, followed by a concert in Hachioji at Olympus Hall Hachioji.

In My Solitude: Live At Grace Cathedral released

Branford's first solo album, In My Solitude: Live At Grace Cathedral, is released on October 27, 2014. Recorded live during Branford's solo performance at the historic Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA on October 5, 2012, this album marks the first release in a new partnership with Okeh Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music. The cathedral is the site of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts in the Sixties and, since 1983, home to recitals at the centerpiece of the annual San Francisco Jazz Festival, and proved an ideal setting for a program spanning early and post-bop jazz, baroque and contemporary classical music and spontaneous improvisation.

Marsalis Well-Tempered

Branford Marsalis joins the highly celebrated Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia in Marsalis “Well-Tempered” on a 20-city US tour, performing Baroque masterpieces by Albinoni, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and others.

Creative Director of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's Ascent Series

Branford Marsalis serves as the Creative Director for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Ascent Series during the 12-13 concert season. Branford visits Cincinnati two times during the season, once in November 2012 and the second in March 2013, for residency activites, educational workshops, special guest concerts, as well as two CSO subscription series concerts with the Orchestra.

iTunes selects Branford Marsalis Quartet's Four MFs Playin' Tunes as the best instrumental jazz album of 2012.

Branford Marsalis receives honorary degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

With Chancellor Holden Thorp presiding at the ceremony, which took place at Kenan Stadium on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill, Branford Marsalis receives an honorary doctor of music degree.

Branford Marsalis performs the world premiere of Peter Aderhold’s Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra

Branford Marsalis joins the Frankfurter Opern – Und Museumsorchester orchestra and conductor Sebastian Weigle at the Alte Oper Frankfurt to premiere the Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, a piece which composer Peter Aderhold has been commissioned to write.