Bio

Elena Pinderhughes was born in 1995 in Berkeley, California. She Started playing music extremely early in her life around age 7, was playing with professional musicians on the scene when she was 9, and when she was 11, she came out with her first album ‘Catch 22’. It was also around this age that she made an appearance in HBO’s ‘The Music in Me’. She came to a wide prominence in 2013 when she was selected as one of a few musicians to be a part of the Grammy Jazz High School Combo. Shortly after this selection, she was playing with the likes of Ambrose Akinmusire, Christian Scott, Christian McBride, Hubert Laws, and many others. Elena’s playing is amazingly versatile and deep; she is never constrained to a single genre, as her body of recorded work will reflect. One of the most unique and exciting voices on the flute alive today, some of her other collaborations are Carlos Santana, Taylor McFerrin, Josh Groban, Esperanza Spalding, Herbie Hancock and Vijay Iyer.