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Hailed as "a living legend" by The New Yorker, Fred Hersch and his trio move between stillness and surprise, luminous lyricism and fearless exploration—opening the Jazz Festival at the Museum of Science's extraordinary new performance space.
Anna Geniushene's silver medal at the 2022 Cliburn competition announced a fascinating, distinctive artist with raw power and deep curiosity. Her program moves from Brahms' searching Ballades through Liszt's hauntingly beautiful Valses Oubliées to Beethoven's monumental Eroica Variations.
Bandleader, bassist, and composer Endea Owens draws from a vibrant community of New York jazz musicians who bring soul jazz warmth and irresistible hard bop grooves to every show—a band that offers everyone a seat at the table and a feast for the soul.
Gregory Groover's music is rooted in the idea of community, connectedness, and, as he put it in an interview, "the idea that sound could move people closer to something greater than themselves." Groover, whose previous work includes reimagining African American spirituals and an album of love songs and songs of people he loves, brings the personal and the historical together in his newest program. In North to Boston, he's inspired by the stories of members of his home church—people he's known for years—who migrated to Boston between World War II and the 1980s.
Alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins is one of the most magnetic young musicians in America. With his quartet, he brings a sound marked by confidence, clarity of purpose, and an intensity that feels wholly alive in the moment, promising an essential night for anyone drawn to music where virtuosity and emotion are inseparable.
Vibraphonist Patricia Brennan makes her Vivo Performing Arts debut with her Tentet in Of The Near And Far—a program in which she mapped constellations onto a musical Circle of Fifths, finding inspiration in the geometries of the stars themselves.
Beloved humorist David Sedaris brings his singular voice to Symphony Hall for an evening of sharp wit, surprising insight, and laugh-out-loud storytelling—with freshly written and unpublished pieces, diary excerpts, and the offbeat observations that have made him one of America's most distinctive literary performers.
A Berklee Global Jazz Institute graduate and Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation Ambassador, vocalist and songwriter Manuela Sánchez Goubert draws on the rich rhythms of South American folk music, weaving them into the language of contemporary jazz. Singing in Spanish and Portuguese, she leads her ensemble with bold imagination and boundary defying originality. Free and open to all!
Zambra Collective creates music through improvisation, deep listening, and shared creative language. The award-winning quintet draws its creativity from expansive musical practices rooted in flamenco, Romani, Persian classical, Indian, Catalan, and jazz traditions. Winners of the 2025 Detroit Jazz Festival Call for New Works Award, Zambra’s performances invite listeners into intimate sonic spaces of connection, curiosity, trust, discovery, and sisterhood.
Audiences can't get enough of Hiromi. A boundary-defying pianist, she returns with a must-see personal tribute—joining forces with bass legend Stanley Clarke to honor Chick Corea, with the brilliant PUBLIQuartet adding lush strings. Joyful, virtuosic, and deeply felt.