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SFJAZZ is excited to partner with Diablo Regional Arts Association and Lesher Center Presents on another season of concert events in Contra Costa County. Curated by SFJAZZ, this thrilling series returns for a second year in residence at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts during the 2026-27 Season.
We’re going BIG for our second season with eight extraordinary concerts that feature a broad spectrum of internationally acclaimed jazz artists! Take advantage of this early offer to purchase the best seats at the best prices:
Order our complete, 8-show package and save up to $156 per person!
Order our 5-show sampler package and save up to $72 per person!
Explore the artists that make our 2026-27 SFJAZZ Presents @ The Lesher Center season and order today!*
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* When purchasing your package, you will be prompted to select seats for both the Hofmann Theater and the Lesher Theater. Four shows in the series take place in the 785-seat Hofmann Theater (Payton, SFJAZZ Collective, Trio Da Paz, and The Hot Sardines) and four shows take place in the 297-seat Margaret Lesher Theater (Parlato, Rose, Mayo, and The Fred Hersch Trio).
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Fred Hersch Trio
SFJAZZ Presents @ The Lesher Center presented by Lesher Center and Diablo Regional Arts Association
- Date: 05/27/2027 7:30 PM
- Location: Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, California 94596 - Introduction: “The most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” (Vanity Fair)
BUY AN 8-SHOW FULL SERIES PACKAGE
SFJAZZ is excited to partner with Diablo Regional Arts Association and the Lesher Center Presents Headliners series on another season of concert events in Contra Costa County. Curated by SFJAZZ, this thrilling line-up of internationally recognized jazz artists returns for a second year in residence at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts during the 2026-27 Season.
FRED HERSCH TRIO
May 27, 2027, 7:30pm
Lesher Theater
ABOUT THE FRED HERSCH TRIO
A member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist. He has been proclaimed “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair and “a living legend” by The New Yorker. A seventeen-time Grammy nominee, Hersch has garnered jazz’s most prestigious awards, including a Doris Duke Artist (2016), Jazz Pianist of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association (2011, 2016, 2018), and the Jazz Magazine (France) International Artist of the Year (2021). The Fred Hersch Trio was voted the #1 Jazz Group in the 2019 DownBeat Critics Poll.
An acclaimed and influential solo pianist, he has twelve solo recordings in his catalog including the 2024 release, Silent, Listening which is a collaboration with legendary producer Manfred Eicher for the ECM label. All About Jazz has remarked that “when it comes to the art of solo piano in jazz, there are two classes of performers: Fred Hersch and everybody else” and The New York Times simply calls him “a master who plays it his way”.
Through more than twelve albums, the Fred Hersch Trio has remained at the pinnacle of modern jazz, venerated as the epitome of thrilling interplay and dynamic spontaneity. The Wall Street Journal calls the trio “one of the major ensembles of our time,” while The New Yorker has applauded it for playing with “high lyricism and high danger.” They were named the #1 Jazz Group of the Year by DownBeat magazine. and appeared at major jazz festivals throughout Europe and the US and have regularly headlined rat the legendary Village Vanguard since 1977.
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