Connie Han

Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 8pm

This performance will include a 15-minute intermission.

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Steinway & Sons Artist and visionary provocateur Connie Han reinvents the codes of modern jazz piano with her virtuosity and incendiary expression. She presents a trio program of original compositions and arrangements of the Great American Songbook, jazz, and the wider improvised and experimental music pantheons.

Hailed by Variety magazine as “one of contemporary jazz’s most talented and inventive musicians” and by DownBeat magazine as "The Jazz Warrior-Goddess" with "a skill and ferocity unmatched by all but the most accomplished of pianists," young jazz piano superstar and composer Connie Han interprets the jazz piano pantheon with her own fiery, contemporary style.

Named a Steinway Artist in 2019, Han exhibits her charismatic playing across its full emotional range on Secrets of Inanna, her third release on Mack Avenue Records — a dynamic musical portrait of the beguiling and mysterious Inanna, ancient Sumerian proto-goddess of Love, Beauty, and War.

Secrets of Inanna portrays the Sumerian mythos of the goddess’s solitary descent into the abyss of her soul: the underworld. As told in the Sumerian legend The Descent of Inanna, the heroine’s quest and prophetic evolution can only be completed through Inanna’s commitment to endure immeasurable suffering — a metamorphosis in which she destroys her prior self and is ultimately reborn as the Queen of Heaven and Earth.

Han believes in the power of myth to guide a grounded existence, both as an artist and as a human being. The wisdom imparted by epics such as The Descent of Inanna is as meaningful to Han’s work as her musical influences. Throughout her own journey, music continues to serve as a meditative sanctuary and a constant truth of life. She aims to embolden and inspire audiences of all ages through storytelling in the jazz piano idiom.

Gustav Mahler once said, “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” With each upcoming performance and recording, Connie Han continues to fulfill this axiom with tenacity and purpose — standing on the shoulders of giants who have profoundly shaped her artistry.