Pianist

One of the most lyrical and intimate voices of contemporary jazz piano, Brad Mehldau has forged a unique path, which embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism and pop allure. From critical acclaim as a bandleader to major international exposure in collaborations with Pat Metheny, Renee Fleming, and Joshua Redman, Mehldau continues to garner numerous awards and admiration from both jazz purists and music enthusiasts alike. His forays into melding musical idioms, in both trio and solo settings, has seen brilliant re-workings of songs by contemporary songwriters like The Beatles, Cole Porter, Radiohead, Paul Simon, Gershwin and Nick Drake; alongside the ever evolving breath of his own significant catalogue of original compositions. With his self-proclaimed affection for popular music and classical training, “Mehldau is the most influential jazz pianist of the last 20 years” (The New York Times).

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Brad Mehldau

The Paramount Theatre

One of the most recognizable and unique voices on his instrument today, pianist Brad Mehldau has forged a distinctive path, his music infused with the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. In the Bay Area premiere of his new Cal Performances co-commissioned solo work, Fourteen Reveries, Mehldau reflects on the interior experience we create from our own consciousness, independently of those around us. Written from a similar impulse as his Suite April 2020, Fourteen Reveries is a meditation on the space a composer leaves between specific directions in the score that lets the beauty of the music reveal itself as it allows for new discovery.

Brad Mehldau: Fourteen Reveries

University of California, Berkeley

One of the most recognizable and unique voices on his instrument today, pianist Brad Mehldau has forged a distinctive path, his music infused with the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. In the Bay Area premiere of his new Cal Performances co-commissioned solo work, 14 Reveries, Mehldau reflects on the interior experience we create from our own consciousness, independently of those around us. Written from a similar impulse as his Suite April 2020, 14 Reveries is a meditation on the space a composer leaves between specific directions in the score that lets the beauty of the music reveal itself as it allows for new discovery.

Brad Mehldau: 14 Reveries

Brad Mehldau seamlessly merges elements of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop magnetism. Renowned for his virtuosic piano skills, this award-winning musician unravels and reimagines melodies from artists as diverse as Radiohead, J.S. Bach, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, and more. Mehldau possesses the keen ear and musical imagination of a composer, effortlessly blending jazz and classical elements in his original compositions and commissioned works. It comes as no surprise that The New York Times has hailed him as “the most influential jazz pianist of the past two decades.” Experience the brilliance of Brad Mehldau as he takes the stage for a captivating performance of solo piano works at the St. Francis Auditorium.

New Mexico Museum of Art

Considered to be “the most influential jazz pianist of the last 20 years” (The New York Times) with the touch of Bill Evans, range of Keith Jarrett, and innovation of Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau is one of the greatest musical giants of our time. The 2020 GRAMMY-winner is perhaps most well-known for his stunning improvisations that transcend genre through their combination of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. His latest suite, 14 Reveries for Piano, brings together the dichotomy of his musical personality as both improviser and structural genius – the work is a meditation on the space a composer leaves between specific directions that lets the beauty of the music reveal itself, while still allowing new discovery. As he most often performs with his celebrated trio, this solo recital is a rare opportunity to hear this legendary pure voice as both musician and composer uninterrupted.

Brad Mehldau, Piano

Alexander Hall

Visionary pianist and composer Brad Mehldau performs in Zankel Hall Center Stage. This 360-degree, in-the-round seating configuration wonderfully suits Mehldau’s transcendent, in-the-moment style of music making, in which he blends jazz, classical, and various contemporary influences into profound, impressionistic journeys. In his original works—including a New York premiere co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall—Mehldau showcases the rare cohesion between composition and pure freedom that makes him so greatly renowned across genres.

Carnegie Hall

Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has been called “a renaissance artist at the height of his powers” (BBC) and “the greatest working jazz pianist” (The New Yorker). He is first and foremost an improviser but also has a deep fascination for the formal architecture of music, with the structure of his musical thought serving as an expressive device.

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and his trio have a nearly 20-year history, touring around the world — often performing on stage at Symphony Center — and recording six highly praised albums together. Mehldau consistently presents audiences with an intense live experience, embodying the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism and pop allure.

Brad Mehldau Trio

Symphony Center

Among the most distinctive voices of his generation, Grammy-winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau traffics in extremes. His music weaves together a host of seeming contradictions—a passion for in-the-moment discovery balanced by a penchant for narrative and structure; a sensibility prone to heady abstraction and dense counterpoint but also drawn to the tunefulness, simplicity, and directness of a delicious pop song. With 12 trio recordings to his name over more than 25 years, Mehldau has entered the canon of great jazz piano trio leaders, and here is joined by longtime bandmates, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, for an evening of probing original compositions and expertly reimagined jazz standards. “A marvel of contemporary jazz. The ever-empathic Mehldau trio…never stops fizzing with life” (Jazzwise).

The Carnegie Mellon University Chamber Series brings together members of the CMU Faculty and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for outstanding music making in an intimate space.

Brad Mehldau

Pianist

Events

Mar 26, 2024

Brad Mehldau · Paramount Theatre

Feb 10, 2024

Brad Mehldau: Fourteen Reveries · Cal Performances

Feb 10, 2024

Brad Mehldau: 14 Reveries · Cal Performances

Feb 7, 2024

Brad Mehldau: 14 Reveries · Performance Santa Fe

Feb 1, 2024

Brad Mehldau, Piano · Princeton University Concerts

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