A member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist. He has been proclaimed “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” byVanity Fairand “a living legend” byThe New Yorker.A seventeen-time Grammy nominee, Hersch has garnered jazz’s most prestigious awards, including a Doris Duke Artist (2016), Jazz Pianist of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association (2011, 2016, 2018), and theJazz Magazine(France) International Artist of the Year (2021). The Fred Hersch Trio was voted the #1 Jazz Group in the 2019DownBeatCritics Poll.
