Alon Nechushtan

Alon Nechushtan is a New York-based pianist and celebrated composer. Alon has over 20 years of experience teaching piano in several styles with a repertoire that mixes classical piano literature with contemporary, pop, rock, jazz, and blues. He teaches at the 92Y School of Music and Brooklyn Music School. He is a PhD candidate at the Rutgers University in music theory and composition and has a Masters from the New England Conservatory in Jazz piano performance.

Alon Nechushtan‘s music adventures have brought him to various corners of the globe: the Yokohama ‘Rejoicing Sounds’ Festival in Japan with his contemporary orchestral compositions, The Manila Cultural Center of the Arts, with his Clarinet Concerto for the Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra, The Sao-Paolo Brazil Jewish Music Festival with his groove based Quintet TALAT, Toronto and Montreal with his Words Beyond Trio and Tel Aviv New Music Biennale with his Compositions for Large Ensemble.

Since moving to New York two decades ago, Alon has played piano and collaborated with Jazz greats including William Parker, Don Byron, Donny McCaslin, Robin and Duane Eubanks, Dave Liebman, Bob Moses, Ben Allison, John Ellis, Alex Norris, Andy Statman, Frank London, Chris Cheek, Chris Speed, Marc Helias, Marc Dresser, Andrew Cyrille, David Murray, the late Roy Campbell and many more.

Alon has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Central Park Summer Stage, The Blue Note Jazz Club with his projects as a band leader of various groups or as an in demand sideman. The Kennedy Center has commissioned from Alon Nechushtan a new piece for Billy Strayhorn Centennial Celebration, following by a tour in China and Philippines, along with Jazz Festivals in Belo Horizonte-Brazil, Israel. The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C has commissioned from Alon Nechushtan a new program of Thelonious Monk’s less known compositions while Alon Nechushtan’s Big Band had celebrated Stan Kenton and Dave Brubeck’s music on their centennial birthdays.

All About Jazz magazine called him “A fantastic pianist-composer with abundant chemistry and boundless eclecticism”, while DownBeat Magazine  recognizes “A talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold, two-fisted sense of Architecture”. Alon Nechushtan has composed music for over 30 film, dance and multimedia projects, working with leading choreographers and cinematographers and presented at places like Dance Theater Workshop, Performance Space 122, The Joyce soho, and various other venues across New York City, Europe, and the Middle-East.