17 Grammy® nominations (8 for Best Jazz Album, 7 for Best Jazz Solo, 2 for Best Instrumental Composition)
Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Composition 2003
Doris Duke Artist Award 2016
Ten composition residencies at The MacDowell Colony 2000-2019
Residencies at Bellagio (2005) and The Banff Center for the Arts
Jazz Journalists Association “Book of the Year about Jazz” 2018
Jazz Journalists Association “Pianist of the Year” 2011, 2016 and 2018
Jazz Magazine (France) “Artiste Étranger de L’année” 2015 and 2021
DownBeat Critics’ Poll “Pianist of the Year” 2015 and 2016
DownBeat Ctitics’ Poll “Jazz Group of the Year” 2019 (Fred Hersch Trio)
Prix Honorem in Jazz from L’Acádemie Charles Cros 2017
Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie du Jazz 2015
Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Charles Cros 2012
Coup de Coeur de l’Académie Charles Cros 2011
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Grinnell College, 2016
Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts, Northern Kentucky University, 2015
RECORDINGS
Over 50 recordings as bandleader/solo artist for labels including Nonesuch, Angel/EMI. Palmetto, Sunnyside and Concord Jazz
Duo collaborations with artists including Bill Frisell, Renée Fleming, Esperanza Spalding, Miguel Zenon, Dawn Upshaw, Anat Cohen, Enrico Rava, Julian Lage and many others
Appears on over 130 recording projects to date
OTHER
Compositions published by Edition Peters and Heights Music
Commissions from The Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Roomful of Teeth, Igor Levit, The Gramercy Trio, Peak Performances@Montclair State, The Miller Theater at Columbia University, Lucerne Festival and others
Subject of feature documentary “The Ballad of Fred Hersch” 2016
B. Music with Honors, New England Conservatory, 1977
Former faculty, The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, The Manhattan School of Music, The New School, Rutgers University
Author of memoir “Good Things Happen Slowly” (Crown/Random House) 2017
