2002 marked a special year for the ever-versatile Camilo with the release of two albums, one classical and one Jazz. In February, Decca released his Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, Suite for Piano, Strings and Harp & Caribe, to celebrate his guest appearance with the NSO conducted by Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and in March Telarc released Triangulo.

August 2003 marked the Telarc release of his album Live at the Blue Note, featuring Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez on drums and Charles Flores on acoustic bass. This two-CD set captured the quintessential Camilo "sound" live for the first time.

His eighteen recordings to date have been recognized with a Grammy award for his “Live at the Blue Note” (Telarc) album, an Emmy award, two Latin Grammy awards, two Grammy nominations and two Premios de la Música (Spain). He has recorded in Solo, Duo, Trio, Sextet, Big Band and Symphony Orchestras, as well as film soundtracks. He moves with ease between the worlds of Jazz, Latin, Flamenco, and Classical music. In 2000, Camilo's Verve release, Spain, with flamenco guitarist Tomatito, won Best Latin Jazz Album in the first-ever Latin Grammy Awards.

Highlights include a five year tenure as Musical Director of the Heineken Jazz Festival (Dominican Republic), president of the jury at the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano competition, featured in the award winning Latin Jazz documentary film Calle 54 (, directed by the Oscar-winning Spaniard Fernando Trueba), JazzWeek Artist of the Year (2004), Artist in Residence at the 2007 Klavier Piano Festival Ruhr, voted among the Top 10 Jazz Pianists of the Year at the 69th Annual DownBeat Readers Poll, Meet the Composer and NYSCA composition grants, co-Artistic Director of the first Latin-Caribbean Music Festival at the Kennedy Center performing the world premiere of his Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin (commissioned by the NSO), and the world premiere of his Rhapsody for Two Pianos and Orchestra (commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra) performed by Katia & Marielle Labèque at the Royal Festival Hall.

Guest engagements with prestigious symphony orchestras include the National (NSO), Cleveland, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta, Gulbenkian, Madrid, Barcelona, Nacional (Spain), Navarra, Cadaques, Seville, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, New Japan, NorrlandsOperan, Nacional (Dominican Republic), RTVE, Puerto Rico, Queens, Long Island, Copenhagen Philharmonic and Indiana University Philharmonic, among others. He has recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Decca/Universal) and with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (Telarc).

Mr. Camilo’s honors include Honorary Doctorates from Berklee College of Music (Boston), Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, UTESA University of Santiago, as well as an Honorary Professorship from Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the “Crystal Apple” from the City of New York. The Dominican Government awarded him its highest civilian honors: the Silver Cross of the Order of Duarte, Sanchez & Mella, and Knight of the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus.

The Duke Ellington School of the Arts created the “Michel Camilo Piano Scholarship” which helps talented inner-city students attend college. Mr Camilo created the “Michel Camilo Scholarship,” which helps Dominican students come to study jazz at Berklee College of Music.

Official Web Site: www.michelcamilo.com

French Toast (1984)

Why Not? (Evidence, 1985)

Suntan (1986)

Michel Camilo (1988)

On Fire (1989)

On The Other Hand (1990)

Amo Tu Cama Rica, Soundtrack (1991)

Rendezvous (1993)

One More Once (1994)

Two Much (1996)

Hands of Rhythm (1997)

Thru My Eyes (1997)

Spain (2000)

Calle 54, soundtrack (2001)

Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, Suite for Piano, Strings and Harp & Caribe (Decca, 20

Triangulo (Telarc, 2002)

 Live at the Blue Note (Telarc, 2003)

Solo (Telarc, 2005)

Rhapsody in Blue (Telarc 2006)

Spain Again (Decca, 2006)

Spirit of the Moment (Telarc, 2007)