Awards & Winners

Fred Hersch

Date of Birth 21-October-1955
Place of Birth Cincinnati
(United States of America, Ohio, Hamilton County, Area code 513)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Hersch, Fred
Profession Jazz Pianist, Pianist, Composer
Fred Hersch is a American jazz pianist and composer. Proclaimed by Vanity Fair magazine, “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade or so," five-time Grammy nominee Hersch balances his internationally recognized instrumental skills with significant achievements as a composer, bandleader, and theatrical conceptualist, as well as remaining an in-demand collaborator with other noted bandleaders and vocalists. As a solo pianist; as leader of a widely praised trio whose album Whirl found its way onto numerous 2010 best-recordings-of-the-year lists; and as the impetus behind the ambitious 2011 production, My Coma Dreams, a full-evening work for 11 instruments, actor/singer and animation/multimedia—Hersch has fully lived up to the approbation of the New York Times who, in a featured Sunday Magazine article, praised him as “singular among the trailblazers of their art, a largely unsung innovator of this borderless, individualistic jazz – a jazz for the 21st century.” He was nominated for two 2011 Grammy Awards for Alone at the Vanguard - for Best Jazz Album and Best Improvised Jazz Solo; these are his fourth and fifth nominations. His newest trio album, the two-CD Alive at the Vanguard, has been garnering wide critical acclaim as one of his best releases in his 30-year recording career. It has been awarded the 2012 Grand Prix du Disque by the Académie Charles Cros in France and it was named one of the Best CDs of 2012 by Downbeat Magazine.

Awards by Fred Hersch

Check all the awards nominated and won by Fred Hersch.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo Song Without Words #4: Duet

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album Alone at the Vanguard
Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo Work
Track from: Alone At The Vanguard