John Hansen

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Piano

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“John Hansen is of that rarest of breeds: An attentive, discreetly inventive accompanist.”

– Christopher Delaurenti, The Stranger, Classical, Jazz and Avant

 

John Hansen is regarded as one of the most in-demand jazz pianists in the Northwest. A studied and musical ensemble player with a strong melodic vocabulary, John has always been recognizable for a unique personal voice.

 

His performance history includes such venues as NYC's Birdland, The Jazz Standard, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, DC's John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, Seattle's Jazz Alley and Tula's, and international festivals and tours in France, Japan, Korea, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Russia and Central America. During his career, John Hansen has performed and recorded with many of the Northwest's premiere award-winning bands including the Jay Thomas Quartet, Jim Knapp Orchestra, Kelley Johnson, and The Bill Ramsay-Milt Kleeb Band with Pete Christlieb. He has been invited to perform with The Seattle Symphony, Rick Margitza, Randy Brecker, Ingrid Jensen, Ernestine Anderson, The Woody Herman Orchestra, Bud Shank, Bobby Shew, David “Fathead” Newman, and more.

 

John studied music at the University of Washington. His teachers have included Mulgrew Miller, Fred Hersch, and Jerome Gray. He has been a guest clinician at universities and jazz camps, and has participated as a clinician and performer in two U.S. State Department cultural ambassador tours. 

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