Trained in piano performance at New York's  Juilliard School, Aaron Diehl is considered a major jazz virtuoso and composer – and a breath of fresh air in the world’s jazz scene, according to critics. He has served as music director for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s New Orleans Songbook Series. Diehl has collaborated with living masters ranging from from NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson to 20th century classical titan Philip Glass, while establishing himself as one of the preeminent interpreters of the Great American Songbook in his own trio.