Alan Ferber

"Multiple GRAMMY-nominated trombonist/composer Alan Ferber has been called “one of the jazz world’s premier composers and arrangers for larger groups” (All About Jazz-NY) and was recognized as 2022’s winner of Down Beat magazine’s International Critics’ Poll for Rising Star trombonist. He has released nine albums as a bandleader, most recently featuring his celebrated nonet called Alan Ferber Nonet: Up High, Down Low on Sunnyside Records. This record follows a larger ensemble release, Alan Ferber Big Band: Jigsaw, which was nominated for a 2018 GRAMMY Award in the ‘Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album’ category.

Ferber has been a collaborator with artists including Esperanza Spalding, Miguel Zenon, Louis Cole, Charlie Hunter, Lee Konitz, John Hollenbeck, and Dafnis Prieto (with whom he won a ‘Best Latin Jazz Album’ GRAMMY Award in 2018). He has recorded extensively in other genres with artists including Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens, The National, and Dr. Dre. As an educator and mentor, Alan currently serves as the Associate Director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in New York City, a reputable incubator for emerging big band composers. He also teaches on the faculties of New York University and Montclair State University, and is the coordinator for the summer jazz intensive at the New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine. "