Name: SULLIVAN FORTNER TRIO
Start: 2026-04-26T16:30:00-07:00
Location: 311 Mirada Rd, Half Moon Bay, CA, United States, California 94019

Sponsored by Bonnie Rattner
For more than a decade, Sullivan Fortner has paired deep‑rooted talent with an uncompromising artistic voice as a pianist, composer, and bandleader. A Grammy Award–winning artist and recipient of the 2026 Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award, Fortner is internationally acclaimed both as a leader and a formidable collaborator. He earned the 2025 Grammy for Best Jazz Performance for his work on Samara Joy’s Twinkle Twinkle Little Me, and the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album alongside Cécile McLorin Salvant for The Window, on which he also served as producer. He has also received Grammy nominations for his 2023 album Solo Game and for his arrangement of “Optimistic Voices/No Love Dying” from Salvant’s Ghost Song. His trio was named Rising Star Jazz Group in the 2024 DownBeat Critics Poll.
Over the past decade, he has collaborated with artists including Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, John Scofield, Ambrose Akinmusire, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gary Bartz, Chief Adjuah and the late Roy Hargrove.