ERICNICEBERG

Eric Niceberg is one of the current generation’s fastest rising stars, an Israeli pianist who with the greatest of ease blend elements of hard-bob, modern jazz, Middle Eastern and fusion influences to provide listeners with an entirely fresh listening experience. 

Listening to Eric play is to go on a truly unique journey, a soulful and intense voyage into a sound that is thoroughly modern yet also pays the deepest respect to the music to which it owes its roots; a sound which is at once modern yet entirely classic. 

Eric graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, but he is an entirely self-taught pianist who by the age of 16 was already performing with well known and loved musicians on the Tel-Aviv jazz scene; swiftly finding a home for his natural ability and eclectic playing style. 

2001 saw an impromptu show develop between Eric’s trio and the legendary Pat Metheny,  after which Pat implored Eric to go to New York to further spread his wings. The following year he did just that and in 2002 after arriving in New York his international music career began. 

This has seen Eric work with some of the greatest names on the worldwide jazz scene,  including; Billy Cobham, James Carter, Joel Frahm, Ari Hoenig, Avishai Cohen, Eric Alexander, Eliot Zigmund, Andy McKee to name just a few. 

He has also participated in some of the world’s most incredible venues such as the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Centre, Beijing Jazz Festival, April Jazz Festival in Finland, International Open Air Festival in Warsaw, Red Sea Jazz Festival and so many more!

Eric has also released five albums so far, each one encapsulating the intensity of his musical journey. 

 

 

Eric's feeling of movement, of travel within the music is infectious and unique as well, doesn't really move quite like anything I've heard before

Eliot Zigmund