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, True East, Gina D’Soto, and El Kikirikí Biquéy.

He works extensively with his father Arturo O’Farrill and has performed on several of his Grammy® Award-winning albums.

He is the Director of Educational Programs at the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance where he supervises and develops curriculum, community programs, senior center residencies, and residencies in NYC Public Schools reaching thousands of individuals year-round.

He also manages the Fat Afro Latin Jazz 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.