A five, six, seven, eight…
Come on down and swing along to the best ragtime, stride, and jazz the Big Apple has to offer. With special performances on select Thursdays and sprinkled spontaneously throughout the season.
Find Piano in Bryant Park on the Upper Terrace at the base of the William Cullen Bryant statue behind the New York Public Library.
Peter Yarin
Stride, Jazz, Composer
Thursday, September 24 performance with Uri Zelig (drums) and Dmitri Kolesnik (bass)
Peter Yarin is a pianist, composer, and recording artist based in New York City. A versatile musician with classical and Jazz influences Peter leads his own trio, plays piano for Vince Giordano's Nighthawks (early/swing jazz). He has performed or recorded with Regina Spektor, Elvis Costello, Liza Minnelli, St. Vincent, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Feinstein, Garrison Keillor, and others. Peter's performances have been employed on numerous film and television soundtracks, including Killers of the Flower Moon, The Queen's Gambit, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He is featured on the Grammy-winning soundtrack album. Peter also composed original music for the musical Sempo at Tokyo's New National Theatre and has composed 2 full length musicals The Age of Innocence and The Masked Zinfandel. Peter is on faculty at the Diller-Quaile School of Music.
