Jazz Pianist Emmet Cohen Comes To Hammer Theatre In “Black Cab Jazz” Series

Miami-born Emmet Cohen began his musical education at a young age, studying piano using the Suzuki method at age three. Before he was accepted into the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, Cohen was part of the Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensemble. In 2010, while he was still a college student, Cohen recorded his debut album In the Element. A year later, he was invited to the White House to celebrate placing third in the Thelonius Monk International Piano Competition and meet with then-President Barack Obama. Since then, Cohen has played in more than a dozen countries, gracing both music festivals and legendary nightclubs, including SF Jazz, North Sea Jazz, Birdland, and Jazzhaus Montmartre. For many years he was also an artist-in-residence at the Smoke Jazz and Supper Club in Harlem. As head of the Emmet Cohen Trio, Cohen works with the Lincoln Center's "Jazz for Young People" program and the YoungArts Foundation to inspire the next generation. To help bring the joy of jazz to audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, he established "Live from Emmet's Place," a weekly livestream that received millions of internet views worldwide, which earned him the Jazz Journalists Association "Live-Stream Producer of the Year" award for 2022.