Yuhan Su - vibraphone
Matt Mitchell - piano
After several years of collaboration, vibraphonist Yuhan Su and pianist Matt Mitchell will premiere a set of new music exploring the gravity of rhythm, extended harmony and interplay.
Yuhan Su
‘Like the best fiction, it’s entirely enveloping’
Recent Nominee of 2024 Downbeat Rising Star of Vibraphone, New York-based Taiwanese vibraphonist Yuhan Su’s four records release as a leader “Liberated Gesture” (2023, Sunnyside), “City Animals” (2018, Sunnyside), “A Room of One’s Own” (2015, Inner Circle Music) and “Flying Alone” (2012, Inner Circle Music) have received widespread approval and numerous music awards, including ‘Best Instrumental Composer Award’ at the Golden Melody Award in 2024 and ‘Best Album of the Year’, ‘Best New Artist’, ’ Best Jazz Single’, ‘Best Instrumentalist Award’ from the Golden Indie Music Award in Taiwan, and ‘Best Release of the Year’ by All about Jazz and Downbeat.
Yuhan has performed with different projects including Amir Elsaffar’s Rivers of Sound, Vijay Iyer’s group, Greg Osby Sextet, Matt Mitchell Quartet, Brian Krock’s Big Heart Machine, Miho Hazama’s M_Unit, Webber/Morris Big Band, Quinsin Nachoff Quintet, Jason Yeager’s Septet, Eugenia Choe Trio and more. Yuhan is names as Top 25 Best Vibraphonists in history by U Discover Music and currently endorsed by Ludwig-Musser Percussion, Resta-Jay Percussion and Alternate Mode Inc.
She is a 2025 recipient of The Jazz Gallery’s Residency Commission.
Matt Mitchell
“A pianist of burrowing focus and an indispensable fixture of the contemporary vanguard” – Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Matt Mitchell is a pianist and composer interested in the intersections of various strains of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music. He currently composes for and leads several ensembles featuring many of the current foremost musicians and improvisers, including Tim Berne, Kim Cass, Kate Gentile, Miles Okazaki, Ches Smith, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Webber, and Dan Weiss.
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