Visit the Downtown Branch’s Library Website for tickets and more information for November 13th.

Gabriel Schillinger- Hyman is a professional jazz pianist based in New York City, frequenting venues and institutions including Carnegie Hall (2X), The Black Cat, Blues Alley, Ornithology, Klavierhaus, Libretto, Piedmont Piano & The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with renowned jazz artists including Christopher McBride & Lucas Pino. Los Angeles-based Tawanda, is a first-place Sarah Vaughan Vocal Jazz Competition Award winner (2021), and received an Outstanding Achievement Bistro Award for Jazz Vocalist following her “stunning” debut at Birdland. Since then she has built audiences world-wide on multiple tours in 2024 with Postmodern Jukebox and Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. 

The two met on tour in Norway and Iceland in 2025, and have since built a deep musical chemistry—together, they've formed a quartet and previously completed a sold-out West Coast run. Their November program will feature a wide-ranging program, with music from Chick Corea and Chaka Khan to sweeping Billy Strayhorn ballads, hard-driving burners by Betty Carter to a handful of original compositions. You won’t want to miss this collaboration.