Ben Rosenblum

Ben Rosenblum is a New York City jazz pianist, accordionist, and composer known for weaving global folk traditions into a jazz foundation. He leads the Ben Rosenblum Trio and the six-piece Nebula Project, whose albums Kites and Strings (2020) and A Thousand Pebbles (2023) fold Brazilian, Balkan, Irish, Indian, and Jewish musical influences into straight-ahead jazz. Born in 1993 and raised in New York, he studied with Frank Kimbrough and Bruce Barth and completed the joint Columbia-Juilliard program in 2016. His debut trio album Instead (2017) earned four stars in DownBeat, and he has toured across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan and appeared as a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall. He has performed alongside artists including Curtis Lundy, Bobby Watson, and Rickie Lee Jones.