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A World of Piano: Sylvie Courvoisier

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Northampton Center For the Arts

Sylvie Courvoisier (piano)

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A World of Piano: Sylvie Courvoisier
A World of Piano: Sylvie Courvoisier

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Mar 01, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Northampton Center For the Arts , 33 Hawley St, Northampton, MA 01060, USA

About The Event

Pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier, a Brooklyn-based native of Switzerland and winner of Germany’s International Jazz Piano Prize in 2022, has earned renown for balancing two distinct worlds: the deep, richly detailed chamber music of her European roots and the grooving, hook-laden sounds of the avant-jazz scene in New York City, her home for more than two decades.


 Few artists feel truly at ease in both concert halls and jazz clubs, playing improvised or composed music. But Courvoisier — “a pianist of equal parts audacity and poise,” according to The New York Times — is as compelling when performing Stravinsky’s epochal Rite of Spring in league with new-music pianist Cory Smythe as she is when improvising with her own acclaimed jazz trio, featuring bassist Drew Gress and drummer Kenny Wollesen.


Then there are her ear-opening collaborations with such luminaries as John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Evan Parker, Ikue Mori, Ned Rothenberg, Fred Frith, Andrew…


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