Fred Hersch
EVENT DETAILS:
August 28, 7:30 pm
Keene Valley Congregational Church
EBFA is honored to be presenting Fred Hersch, one of the most highly acclaimed jazz pianists of our time, for his first performance ever in the High Peaks region. 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).
Hersch has more than sixty albums to his credit as leader or co-leader, including the 2023 release of Alive at the Village Vanguard, a duo with dazzling jazz vocalist Esperanza Spalding that was named a 2023 Top Ten Jazz Album by DownBeat and was nominated for two 2024 Grammy Awards.
