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AARON DIEHL
     Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “The most promising discovery that [Wynton] Marsalis has made since Eric Reed,” Aaron Diehl has been an upcoming force in jazz, dazzling audiences with his brilliant technique, sensitive touch, and interpretations of the music of such great composers as Scott Joplin, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton, Art Tatum, and Duke Ellington, among others. 
     Mr. Diehl has performed with the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon, Wessell Anderson, Benny Golson, and Hank Jones and Loren Schoenberg. He has released his first CD as a leader entitled “Mozart Jazz,” on Pony Canyon, a major label in Japan. The Japanese television station NHK made a documentary on Mr. Diehl and Jazz at Juilliard, which was broadcast to over 5,000,000 people nationwide. In 2002 he was recognized as one of the outstanding soloists at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Competition. The following year, Wynton Marsalis invited him to tour with his Septet on their summer European tour. 
     Mr. Diehl is the 2004 recipient of the Martin E. Segal award for Jazz at Lincoln Center. He was featured on Marian McPartland’s NPR radio show “Piano Jazz.”, and recently headlined at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Marcus Roberts and Jonathan Battiste. He is the musical director at St. Joseph of the Holy Family Church in Harlem. 
   Mr. Diehl is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied piano with  Eric Reed in the jazz division, and Oxana Yablonskaya in the classical division. 

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