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Fred Hersch Jazz Piano Master Class at Mannes School: The Art of Solo Piano (Site)
Tuesday October 8, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeDon’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from a true jazz master, in the intimate setting of the Jazz Performance Space. Free but you need to register here.
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” by Vanity Fair and “a living legend” by The 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 the Jazz Magazine (France) International Artist of the Year (2021). The Fred Hersch Trio was voted the #1 Jazz Group in the 2019 DownBeat Critics Poll.