Victor Goines

New Orleans native Victor Goines has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993. He has released seven leader albums, composing more than 50 original works including Crescent City, premiered by the JLCO in 2014.

He has recorded and/or performed with Ahmad Jamal, Ruth Brown, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Lenny Kravitz, Branford Marsalis, Diana Ross, and Stevie Wonder, among other distinct artists.

Goines served as Artistic Director of Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School and Director ofJazz Studies and Professor of Music at Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University; he continues to serve as an education consultant for Jazz at Lincoln Center.

In 2022, Goines became President and CEO of Jazz St. Louis. He received his bachelor of music from Loyola University, and his master of music from Virginia Commonwealth University. Goines is pursuing his doctor of musical arts in music education (ABD) at Boston University.