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The Aaron Goldberg Trio will be in residence on campus in mid-February as the latest performers in the Filene Concert Series sponsored by the College's Music Department.
Anchored by jazz pianist and composer Aaron Goldberg, the trio will play at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in Filene Recital Hall. General admission is $5; student and senior citizen admission is $2.

Performing with Goldberg are his longtime jazz partners, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. The trio has recorded a new CD, Worlds, slated for release in May by Sunnyside Records.

Pianist John Nazarenko, senior artist-in-residence, said student musicians will meet with the members of the trio for master classes in jazz piano, bass, and drums; student combos will take part in a master class as well. Also, some advanced student musicians will have private lessons with the individual members of the trio.

A Boston native, Goldberg began studying piano at age seven. He first studied jazz with Bob Sinicrope, and then with saxophonist/composer and author Jerry Bergonzi.

While still a teenager, Goldberg won awards from both Berklee College of Music and Downbeat. At 17, he studied at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, and then returned to Boston to enroll at Harvard University. At 19, he was awarded one of five Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowships by the International Association of Jazz Educators, and also was named winner of the 1993 Recognition and Talent Search of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

Goldberg graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in history and science, and a concentration in "Mind, Brain and Behavior."

In addition to work with his trio, Goldberg toured internationally in 2005 with the Wynton Marsalis Quartet and with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He performed in Europe during January as a member of the Kurt Rosenwinkel Quintet and with the OAM Trio, which includes Israeli bassist Omer Avital and Catalan multi-percussionist Marc Miralta.

As a sideman, Goldberg toured more than three years with Joshua Redman's quartet and recorded two albums for Warner Bros. with the celebrated sax player, whose published endorsement of Goldberg reads: "Boundless imagination, burning intensity, exquisite sensitivity and abundant soul - Aaron Goldberg truly has it all. One of the most exciting, inventive, and lyrical pianists you will ever hear."