Jazz Festival Concert featuring Steven Feifke

The Lexington High School Jazz department is pleased to welcome Grammy-winning alumnus Steven Feifke as the featured guest at our annual Spring Jazz Festival Concert.  The concert will feature Feifke brilliance as a pianist and composer alongside the LHS large and small jazz ensembles.

Steven Feifke is one of New York City’s preeminent pianists, composers, orchestrators, arrangers, and educators. The youngest ever GRAMMY winner for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in Recording Academy history, Feifke has been awing audiences in NYC and beyond for more than a decade — whether in his trio, septet, big band, or any other format of expression.

DownBeat magazine has declared his music to exude “an air of infectious joy,” and named him to their “25 for the Future” class of 2024. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist, an Avid Sibelius Artist, and has appeared on more than 45 albums to date. He has also written music for hit TV shows like “The Masked Singer,” “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” “Impractical Jokers,” “Animaniacs,” and numerous world-class big bands and orchestras around the globe including Metropole Orkest, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and more. In 2022, he and co-leader, trumpeter Bijon Watson, released Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra, — an album with a mission of showcasing and celebrating generational diversity to strengthen the tradition of mentorship that has shaped and defined the jazz idiom since its earliest beginnings. The album went on to win a GRAMMY in 2023 for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.