Art of Jazz: The Fernando Huergo Big Band

Wednesday, Nov 20, 2024 at 7:30pm
Mosesian Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street
617-923-0100

We're starting things off BIG with this 18-piece contemporary large ensemble! The Fernando Huergo Big Band will be joining us in the Charles Mosesian Theater to kick off our 2024-25 Art of Jazz series, featuring Berklee faculty artists, now in its 15th season!

Reserve tickets to this event below or purchase a series pass.

Fernando Huergo is a bassist, composer, and educator from Cordoba, Argentina, now based in Boston. He has recorded over 140 albums, including 11 as a leader. Fernando has toured and given clinics in North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. An active performer on the jazz scene, he currently plays with Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, MOZIK, Mehmet Sanlikol, Daniel Ian Smith, Pablo Ablanedo, and El Eco, to name a few. Fernando Huergo has performed with his quintet at the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, and Cordoba International Jazz Festival in Argentina, as well as at Alexanderplatz Jazz Club in Rome, Italy, and Sunside Jazz in Paris, France, The Regattabar in Cambridge, MA and Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC, among others.

Performing music from the new album Relentless (Whaling City Sound), which is currently at the top of the Radio Jazz charts, the Fernando Huergo Big Band features some of the best musicians in Boston: Jeff Claassen, Billy Buss, Dan Rosenthal, Greg Hopkins, Randy Pingrey, Chris Gagne, Jason Camelio, Ben Pilon, Yulia Musayelyan, Rick Stone, Allan Chase, Rick DiMuzio, Joel Springer, Daniel Ian Smith, Santiago Bosch, Fernando Huergo, Gen Yoshimura and Ernesto Díaz.