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Ben Collins-Siegel

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Ben Collins-Siegel is a young, rising jazz pianist from Maplewood, New Jersey, born in 2007. Ben has performed at prestigious venues and festivals including the Monterey Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Steinway Hall in New York City. He has played alongside prominent jazz artists like John Pizzarelli, Winard Harper, and Julius Tolentino. 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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Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Pianist Ben Collins-Siegel

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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, ...

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Article: Rising Stars

Wells Fargo Jazz For Teens

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Clay Hudson grew up in a family “surrounded by music, and it rubbed off on me." Henry Spencer remembers that in the second grade at St. Luke's School in the West Village, “every student took drum lessons. I was the only one who stuck with it." Hudson and Spencer, both drummers, are two of ...


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