Fred Hersch: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Fred Hersch with the UVM Jazz Ensemble, Alexander Stewart, Director -

The Music of Billy Strayhorn

A member of piano jazz’s pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force for 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) and the Jazz Magazine (France) International Artist of the Year (2021).