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Ben Collins-Siegel
Ben Collins-Siegel is a jazz pianist from Maplewood, New Jersey. Ben has played alongside prominent jazz artists like Winard Harper, Steve Davis, John Pizzarelli, and Julius Tolentino. Ben has performed at prestigious venues and festivals including Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and Carnegie Hall. His accolades include being named a 2023 YoungArts finalist, a member of the 2023 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra (NYO Jazz 2025), and a participant in the 2024 Vail Jazz Workshop. He has also won multiple DownBeat Student Music Awards in the High School Jazz Soloist category and received the Steinway & Sons Jazz Piano Award and Scholarship in 2023.
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Introducing Pianist Ben Collins-Siegel
by Sanford Josephson
I first saw Ben Collins-Siegel play piano in July 2019 at the Roselle Park Jazz Festival. Then a 12-year-old seventh grader at Maplewood Middle School, he led off a performance by the JTole Jazz Orchestra of Thad Jones' “Counter Block," written for the Count Basie Orchestra. It was stunning. JTole stands for Julius Tolentino, the Jazz Director at Livingston, NJ's Newark Academy and Director of the RP Festival. Collins-Siegel had already been studying with Tolentino and began attending ...
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