Dawkins has created commissioned works for MacArthur Foundation, Live the Spirit
Residency, the Joyce Foundation, Old Town School of Folk Music, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival, Sons d’Hiver Festival, Banliues Bleues Festival, Meet The Composers, the Jazz Institute of Chicago, and the King Arts Complex of Columbus Ohio. Dawkins is an active member of the local arts community and is past Chairman of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He has worked with a myriad of music greats including: Kahil El Zabar, Hamid Drake, Harrison Bankhead, Dee Alexander, Nicole Mitchell. Corey Wilkes, Orbert Davis, Ari Brown, Ramsey Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Willie Pickens, Malachi Favors, Henry Threadgill, Amina Claudine Myers, Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Zim Ngqawana, Feya Faku, Jack
McDuff, Don Moye, Jerry Butler, Marquis Hill, Makaya McCraven, Ben Lamar, Isiah Collier, Alexis Lombre and The Dells.
DISCOGRAPHY
2025 Paul Robeson Man of the People. Live the Spirit Residency and Dawk Publishing
2023 Fredrick Douglass Live the Spirit Residency and Dawk Publishing
2022 Young Masters This Time/ Next Time Live the Spirit Residency and Dawk Publishing
2021 Englewood Soweto Exchange Live the Spirit Residency and Dawk Publishing
2020 Young Masters In all Directions Live the Spirit Residency and Dawk Publishing
2018 Great Black Music Ensemble, Live @ The Currency Exchange Cafe, AACM records
2017 Transient Takes , Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble featuring; Vijay Iyer Live the Spirit Residency and Dawk Publishing
2016 The Young Masters Coming of Age, Live the Spirit Residency and Dawk Publishing
2014 Ernest Dawkins Live the Spirit Residency Big Band, Memory in The Center An Afro Opera Live the Spirit Residency and Dawk Publishing
TICKETS
General Admission $25
VIP $40
Student Tickets $20
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