Anton Kot is a twenty-one-year-old, multi-instrumentalist on piano, drums, and gamelan. He is also a faceted composer and arranger having been described as a musician with “composer’s wit” by Paul Rauch, All About Jazz. He has been known for performing original works that combine elements of contemporary genres with the jazz idiom. He has recently headlined at the 2023 Pittsfield City and Washington Heights Jazz Festivals, the 2022 Litchfield Jazz Festival, and the 2021 Bronx River Festival Streams of Black Music featuring African American composers. His acts included saxophonists Don Braden and Albert Rivera, bassists Avery Sharpe & Mary Ann McSweeney, trumpeter Jean Caze, and pianists Caili O’Doherty and Manuel Valera. Receiving a standing ovation, Litchfield Festival Founder, Vita Muir exclaimed in A Triumph at 27!, “One audience member called Anton ‘a highlight in the [Litchfield] Festival’s history.’ Praise well deserved.” In 2022, he premiered his commissioned, twenty-five minute piano concerto, "Let’s Try This", at the 2022 International Festival of Arts & Ideas with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra directed by Alasdair Neale. The piece is a self-reflection where a pianist rediscovers their instrument under the stress of induced isolation. It was designed to be performed differently each time as a nod to the insistent volatility of Covid’s effect on daily life. In the same year, he was also commissioned for the Berkshire Jazz 10 x 10 Composers Showcase where his work for jazz quartet premiered. Additional 2023 accolades include being a recipient of the National YoungArts X Anthropologie Leading with Creativity Award where he also received a commission to write music for Anthropologie. He has also performed with members of the Honeywell Arts Resonance Institute as a twice awarded fellowship scholar (2023 & 2021). Anton has performed at venues domestically and internationally, including Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, Mezzrow, Blue Note, The Django, Le Duc des Lombards (Paris), Sunset/Sunside (Paris), Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, Carnegie Hall, the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing), the International Gamelan Festival (Solo, Indonesia), Detroit Jazz Festival, Vail Jazz Festival, and the Newport Jazz Festival. He is currently a student at New York University with Steinhardt, Music and Global Scholar Merit Awards. He has performed, recorded, or collaborated with Sean Jones, Kurt Elling, Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Miller, Ken Peplowski, Ted Rosenthal, Drew Gress, Steven Feifke, Cy Leo, Chico Freeman, Janis Siegel, Manuel Valera, Dezron Douglas, Ari Hoenig, Alan Broadbent, Tatum Greenblatt, Pak Sumarsam, and I.M. Harjito.

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