Wigmore Hall

Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau is one of the most exciting musicians in his field today. He performs regularly as a solo artist and with his Brad Mehldau Trio, he has toured and recorded extensively with great success.

He now launches a series of concerts during the next two seasons at Wigmore Hall, having been appointed as curator of Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Series by John Gilhooly.

Brad Mehldau’s musical personality forms a dichotomy. First and foremost an improviser, cherishing the surprise and wonder arising from a spontaneous musical idea. He is also fascinated by the architecture of music and informs everything he plays - the musical thought serving as an expressive device. Mehldau enjoys juxtaposing extremes, often following a complex improvisation with an emotionally direct ballad.

Jazz isn’t the only string to Mehldau’s bow. In 2005, soprano Renée Fleming premièred The Blue Estuaries and The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, works for voice and piano commissioned by Carnegie Hall, New York, and recorded to much acclaim. Two years later he premièred his piano concerto The Brady Bunch Variations at the Châtelet in Paris.

Join Brad Mehldau, his trio and friends over the next two seasons for what promises to be a riotous, thought-provoking and wide-ranging series of concerts.