Mars Landing - Listening Room
37 Library Street--> Purchase tickets for Rabinowitz (July 2) performance AND Nash/Walker (June 27) performance for $50 per person. ($10 savings) Offer appears AT CHECKOUT.
Recently relocated to Asheville, pianist and composer Jeremy Walker performs an intimate duo concert with longtime friend and colleague, New York–based, two‑time Grammy–winning saxophonist Ted Nash. The evening features Walker’s original compositions alongside selected jazz standards, brought to life through deep musical conversation, spontaneity, and shared history. Walker and Nash have collaborated for more than two decades, performing together in New York and Walker’s hometown of Minneapolis, including the launch of Walker’s Jazz in the Atrium series at Minnesota Orchestra Hall. Walker’s story‑driven music, praised for its strong melodic voice, pairs seamlessly with Nash’s inventive musicianship—making this a high‑energy, richly expressive night of music not to be missed!
Grammy Award–winning artist Ted Nash enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Los Angeles into a musical family—his father, Dick Nash, and uncle, the late Ted Nash, were both well‑known jazz and studio musicians—Nash began performing professionally at a young age, including an early appearance with Lionel Hampton. He is a co-founder of the Jazz Composers Collective and a longtime member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
Nash has become one of the most significant jazz composers of the 21st century. His recordings have appeared on “best‑of” lists in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and The Boston Globe, and include Portrait in Seven Shades, Chakra, and Presidential Suite. As The Washington Post noted, “Neither a poster boy for the avant‑garde nor a blinders‑on traditionalist, Nash is simply his own man.” He performs with Nash, Cardenas, and Allison, whose new album Triological was recently released, is a member of the Village Vanguard Orchestra, and leads the Ted Nash Big Band at Dizzy’s at Jazz at Lincoln Center. tednash.com
Jeremy Walker is a composer and pianist whose work moves between jazz, classical art song, improvisation, and poetry. His music has been performed at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Soapbox Gallery in New York, and venues across the country, and has been featured on NPR’s Composer’s Datebook and Classical Minnesota Public Radio.
Originally a saxophonist, Walker shifted to piano and composition in 2005, redirecting his work toward writing and cross‑genre collaboration. His major projects include Like the Water, a Schubert Club–commissioned song cycle based on poetry by Louis Jenkins; Haunted Blue, with settings of Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Greg Foley; 7 Psalms for jazz ensemble and choir; Alma Gentil, commissioned by Consortium Carissimi; and the jazz oratorio The Rage of Achilles.
Walker relocated to Asheville, North Carolina, in 2025 and is currently focused on new solo piano works, art-song collaborations, and chamber compositions. jeremywalkermusic.com
** TWO JAZZ EVENINGS PROMO: Purchase tickets to both June & July jazz performances for $50/pp. OFFER APPEARS AT CHECKOUT.
Thu, Jun 25, 2026 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Mars Landing - Listening Room
37 Library Street
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