george delancey

A native of Cambridge, OH, and a student of such prestigious programs as the Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Michigan State University Jazz Studies Program, where he studied under Rodney Whitaker. He toured nationally and internationally with the Larry Fuller Trio from 2017 to 2019, and has performed as a sideman with bandleaders including Wessell Anderson, Peter Bernstein, Bobby Broom, Tia Fuller, Philip and Winard Harper, Christian Howes, Willie Jones III, Wynton Marsalis, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Russell Malone, Tomoko Omura, Johnny O'Neal, Houston Person, Ben Paterson, Jeremy Pelt, Bria Skonberg, as well as many others in New York and throughout the United States. He received a commission for a new composition for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, entitled "Charles," which was premiered on April 25, 2025 as part of JALC's "Contemporary Jazz Masterpieces" program. He is active nationally as a bandleader and educator, and has worked with programs including Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People, the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus, Christian Howes’ Creative Strings Workshop, and Keith Hall's Summer Drum Intensive.