Jazz at the Spring Fest

Living jazz legend and seventeen-time Grammy nominee Fred Hersch makes his Prague Spring debut with his trio, named Jazz Group of the Year 2019 by DownBeat magazine. 

“When it comes to the art of solo piano in jazz, there are two classes of performers: Fred Hersch and everybody else,” wrote the website allaboutjazz.com, referring to another of the artists making their debut at the Prague Spring in 2026. Jazz pianist Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force on the international jazz scene for more than three decades. The American monthly Vanity Fair described him as “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade”, while The New Yorker saluted him as a “living legend”. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hersch has received an incredible seventeen Grammy nominations. He has also earned other prestigious distinctions: the Doris Duke Artist Award 2016, the title Pianist of the Year in 2011, 2016 and 2018, conferred on him by the Jazz Journalists Association, and International Jazz Artist of the Year for 2021, awarded by the French Jazz Magazine, among many other honours. The Fred Hersch Trio, who will be performing at the Prague Spring, was voted the number one jazz group in a critics’ poll conducted by the American jazz magazine DownBeat in 2019. 

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Fred Hersch Trio