Alon Nechushtan’s musical adventures have taken him to various far corners of the globe, including the Yokohama ‘Rejoicing Sounds’ Festival in Japan with his contemporary orchestral compositions, the Manila Cultural Center of the Arts with his Clarinet Concerto for the Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra, the São Paulo Brazil Jewish Music Festival with his groove-based Quintet Talat, Toronto and Montreal with his Words Beyond Jazz Trio, and the Tel Aviv New Music Biennale with his compositions for large ensemble.

Alon has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Central Park SummerStage, The Blue Note Jazz Club, and The Kennedy Center, either as a bandleader of various groups or as an in-demand sideman. In October 2015, The Kennedy Center commissioned a new piece from Alon Nechushtan for the Billy Strayhorn Centennial Celebration, followed by a Far East tour in China and the Philippines, as well as performances at jazz festivals in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Israel. In 2017, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. commissioned a new program from Alon Nechushtan featuring Thelonious Monk’s lesser-known compositions.

All About Jazz magazine called him “a fantastic pianist-composer with abundant chemistry and boundless eclecticism,” while DownBeat Magazine recognizes “a talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit, and bold, two-fisted sense of architecture.”

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