MATT HERSKOWITZ
Genres: Third Stream, Post-Fusion Contemporary • United States

A graduate of the Juilliard School in New York and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Albany native Matt Herskowitz has made Montréal (Québec) his adopted home since 2000. He distinguished himself as a talent deserving of wider recognition with his first solo piano release, 2007’s Matt Herskowitz Plays Gershwin (Disques Tout Crin), which featured solo arrangements of “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Concerto in F” and “Cuban Overture.” Matt's performance on the soundtrack of the Grammy-nominated film The Triplets of Belleville has earned him much popular and critical acclaim. He performs Bach's Prelude in C minor in the film, loosely posing as Glenn Gould, and his own Bach à la Jazz, a jazz arrangement of the same Bach prelude, which is also featured on the award-winning hit soundtrack CD of the film. In 2008, he premiered his piano concert Undertow with the Absolute Ensemble at the Bremen International Musikfest in read more...