Born in New York, 1990.
Multifaceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen is one of his
generation's 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 Center's Rose Hall and Washington's
Kennedy Center. Cohen has headlined at the Village Vanguard, the Blue Note, Dizzy's
Club Coca-Cola, Birdland, Jazz Standard, and Jazzhaus Montmartre. He is Hammond
B-3 organist-in-residence at Harlem's 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
Elling, Billy Hart, Herlin Riley, Lea DeLaria, and Bill T. Jones.