Endea Owens & The Cookout w/Special Guest Chef Janos Wilder
She has toured and performed with Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Holliday, Diana Ross, Rhonda Ross, Solange, Jon Batiste, Jazzmeia Horn, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Cyrus Chestnut to name a few.
In 2018, Endea graduated from The Juilliard School, and joined the Late Show with Stephen Colbert as a member of the house band, Stay Human. Since then, Endea has won an Emmy, Grammy Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award. Endea’s work has appeared on Jon Batiste’s Grammy Award-winning album “We Are”, Oscar-nominated film Judas and the Black Messiah, and H.E.R’s widely acclaimed Super Bowl LV performance.
Endea has a true passion for philanthropy and teaching. She has taught students across the United States, South America, and Europe. In 2020, Endea founded The Community Cookout, a non-profit organization birthed out of the Covid-19 pandemic that provides meals and music to underserved neighborhoods worldwide. To date, Endea’s organization has helped feed over 6,000 people.
In 2022, Endea composed an original piece about the life of Ida B. Wells entitled “Ida’s Crusade” for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and was also performed by the NYO Carnegie Hall Orchestra. Endea has written for brands such as Pyer Moss and Glossier. Endea also premiered a newly commissioned work with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as the 2023 MAC Music Innovator with the organization. In addition to her work with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Endea is the curator for the National Arts Club and also a fellow for “Jazzis Now!” with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, where she presents original compositions, curates series, and headlines performances for the 2022-2023 season. Endea’s debut album“Feel Good Music” has recently been released this past September.
JANOS WILDER
Janos Wilder is a Tucson icon and James Beard Award-winning chef who opened his first restaurant in Tucson in 1983 in the historic Hiram Steven’s house at the Tucson Museum of Art and has been cooking with ingredients indigenous to the Sonoran Desert ever since. While sourcing foods that have been foraged or cultivated locally for thousands of years, Wilder cooks with an eye to the future. He creates sophisticated, modern dishes that explore the utility of cooking with ancient foods in response to climate change and aridity.
His current project, Studio Janos opened in 2023. In this art-filled space located downtown Wilder’s purpose-built kitchen opens onto an intimate dining space where multi-course meals are prepared in front of his guests. Studio Janos is home to private dinners, cooking classes, and contains a complete video studio. The chef is the Board President of Tucson City of Gastronomy, former Board Chair of Native Seeds, SEARCH and lends his support and fundraising skills to numerous local organizations.
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