Fred Hersch
jazz piano
October 5, 7:30pm
UVM Recital Hall
$25 Adults
$20 Students
Pianist and composer Fred Hersch has earned a place among the foremost musicians in the world today. He is widely recognized for his ability to reinvent the standard jazz repertoire—investing time-tested classics with keen insight, fresh ideas and extraordinary technique—while steadfastly creating his own unique body of work.
Hersch's many accomplishments include a 2003 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition, a Rockefeller Fellowship for a composition residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy, two Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance and a 2006 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition. He has recorded more than two dozen albums as a solo artist or bandleader, and appears on over one hundred recording projects as a duo collaborator, sideman or featured soloist.
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