Fred Hersch, Jazz Pianist, "A Musical Quilt: Together in Unity"

Jazz pianist FRED HERSCH will perform at 7:30 pm on Saturday, April 14 at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda.  Hersch received a 2003 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition, two Grammy® nominations for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, and a Grammy® nomination for Best Instrumental Composition. He has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, grants from Chamber Music America, and The National Endowment for the Arts.  He is a visiting professor at Western Michigan University and on the Jazz Studies faculty of The New England Conservatory.

All proceeds from the concert, "A Musical Quilt: Together in Unity." will be divided among The Dennis Avenue Health Center HIV/AIDS Program, The Association of François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) South Africa Program, and La Clínica del Pueblo.The event  is co-hosted by Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, Bethesda Jewish Congregation, and River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The concert series is designed to help those whose lives are affected by HIV/AIDS. All tickets to the concert are tax-deductible.