Ahmed Alom - the Cuban-born pianist, composer, and conductor moves fluidly between concert halls and jazz clubs, between the music of Bach and Afro-Cuban rhythm, between the stage and the podium — and makes every crossing feel inevitable.

He defies categorization. As a composer, his works have been premiered by Yuja Wang with the New York Philharmonic, by violinist Tessa Lark, and also at International Trumpet Guild Festival. As a collaborator, his partners range from Teddy Abrams, Louisville Orchestra, the New World Symphony and People of Earth for performances of “Tentación” by Dafnis Prieto.  Additionally, Ahmed collaborated with Michael League, Pedrito Martinez and Antonio Sanchez with the project “Ellipsis”, headlining the Havana Jazz Festival 2025. 

In the summer of 2026, Alom’s new Piano Concerto, written for Yuja Wang and People of Earth and conducted by Alom, will receive its world premiere in Aspen, Vail, Caramoor, and Sun Valley. It’s the culmination of a collaboration that has redefined what a classical concert can feel like.In 2023 he co-founded Triple Cortado, a brass chamber music ensemble with Caleb Hudson and Achilles Liarmakopoulos. Their performance at the Moab Music Festival in 2025 was featured in the cover of The New York Times. Triple Cortado’s debut album will be released in late 2026.

 Ahmed’s solo debut album, Exilio, explores themes of displacement and exile from the perspective of six Hispanic and Latin American Composers, and showcased a recovered lost masterpiece of Latin American music - The 4 Intermezzos by Luis Antonio Calvo, which became the very first integral recording of the set in history. As a soloist, Alom has performed with the Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, New World Symphony, and orchestras across the US, Spain, Mexico, and Cuba.

In the summer of 2024, Alom became the youngest Artistic Director of The Washington Square Music Festival — one of New York’s most beloved summer institutions and its youngest Artistic Director in their history. 

Alom was born and raised in Havana, training at Cuba’s Amadeo Roldan Conservatory in piano and percussion before attending the Manhattan School of Music, earning a degree in piano performance. He has since given masterclasses at Juilliard, Curtis, Yale, Berklee, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.

Ahmed Alom isn’t building a career at the intersection of worlds. He’s proof there was never a wall there to begin with.