Jecorey Arthur

Jecorey “1200” Arthur is an award-winning teacher, musician and activist from Louisville, Kentucky. He is currently a music professor at Simmons College of Kentucky, an artist roster member of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) and an endorsed artist with Salyers Percussion. Arthur has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Big Ears Festival, Forecastle Festival and Jungfrau Erzählfestival; performed as a soloist with the Stereo Hideout Brooklyn Orchestra and the Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Nashville, Columbus and Oregon Symphony Orchestras; performed as the first hip-hop artist with the Louisville Orchestra including world premieres of folk opera The Way Forth and rap opera The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, where he starred as his hometown hero; and composed music for theatre, film, television, radio, podcast and studio albums. In 2021, Arthur was inaugurated as the youngest city councilman in the history of Louisville.