Zack O’Farrill is a drummer/percussionist, educator and big band director from Brooklyn. He performs regularly close to home in Brooklyn, throughout the United States, and across the globe with Adam O’Farrill Stranger Days, Albert Marquès and Freedom First, Kalí Rodríguez-Peña and Mélange, Mali Obomsawin, Dan Lehner’s True East, and El Kikirikí Biquéy. He also works extensively with his father Arturo O’Farrill and has performed on several of his Grammy® Award-winning albums. He is the Community Liaison at Belongó (fka the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance) where he works to connect the organization to its neighborhood of El Barrio and the Latino community at large in the lead up to the construction of their permanent brick and mortar arts and community center. With Belongó he also manages the Fat Cats youth ensembles, directing the big band. With his wife, Colombian soprano Sasha Gutiérrez Montaño, he is co-founder of The Opera Next Door, producing opera’s (and not operas) in the streets of New York reaching audiences often overlooked by conventional arts programming.