Emmet Cohen

generations pivotal figures in music and the related arts. Downbeat praised the "nimble

touch, measured stride and warm harmonic vocabulary" he employs to communicate

with other musicians and audiences at what he terms "the deepest level of humanity

and individuality." Leader of the "Emmet Cohen Trio" and creator of the "Masters

Legacy Series," Cohen is an internationally acclaimed jazz artist and dedicated music

educator.

Emmet Cohen is the winner of the 2019 American Pianists Awards and the Cole Porter

Fellow of the American Pianists Association, and Artist-in-Residence at the University of

Indianapolis. Cohen was a finalist in the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Piano

Competition. He has appeared in the Newport, Monterey, Jerusalem, and North Sea

jazz festivals, among others, and at Lincoln Centers Rose Hall and Washingtons

Kennedy Center. Cohen has headlined at the Village Vanguard, the Blue Note, Dizzys

Club Coca-Cola, Birdland, Jazz Standard, and Jazzhaus Montmartre. He is Hammond

B-3 organist-in-residence at Harlems SMOKE jazz club.

A Suzuki piano student at age three, Cohen holds jazz piano degrees from the

Manhattan School of Music (M.M.) and the University of Miami (B.M.). Emmet Cohen

has performed, recorded, or collaborated with Ron Carter, Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb,

George Coleman, Jimmy Heath, Tootie Heath, Houston Person, Christian McBride, Kurt

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