Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Meet Shaan Pandiri, a standout JALC alumnus who’s been part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra, Essentially Ellington, and Summer Jazz Academy. Through these experiences, he found his community and pushed himself with guidance from mentors like Ted Nash and Vincent Gardner. Now studying law at Harvard, Shaan continues to draw on the improvisational skills he developed at JALC to think quickly and adapt in the moment. Get to know Shaan in this month’s Alumni Spotlight.

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