Carnegie Hall

One of the most innovative and influential guitarists of his generation, Kurt Rosenwinkel has been called “the sound of the future” (Chicago Tribune). With a career that began in the 1990s as a sideman with such singular artists as Gary Burton, Joe Henderson, and Paul Motian—and now includes explorations of Brazilian music, electro-acoustic programming, the music of Chopin, and more—Rosenwinkel’s artistry is defined equally by his appetite for invention and his unbelievable playing. In his Carnegie Hall debut, he presents The Brahms Project, in which fresh arrangements by pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck transform the harmonically rich works of the master Romantic-period composer into groove-oriented sandboxes for improvisation.