A Day in the Life of Paul Cornish

What is it like to be a rising star of the jazz word? How are the 2023 American Pianists Awards finalists spending their days leading up to the competition? Take a peek into the lives of these artists though our new short documentary series, A Day in the Life.

In this second installment, we go west to find Paul Cornish at home in Los Angeles after spending much of the spring and summer on tour.

Concert footage recorded live at Sam First in Los Angeles
Engineer: Nick Calapine

Filmed and produced by Lee Clifford.

About Paul:
Los Angeles-based pianist and composer Paul Cornish strives to inspire freedom and collaboration in his music and community. Hailing from Houston where he was a student at the prestigious High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Cornish was one of seven jazz prodigies worldwide selected to be awarded a full fellowship to attend the esteemed Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz at UCLA. Here, he completed his master’s degree and studied and performed with such renowned artists as Carl Allen, Jerry Bergonzi, Billy Childs, Herbie Hancock, Bob Hurst, Geoffrey Keezer, Dick Oatts, Chris Potter, Walter Smith and Terell Stafford.

Cornish received the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s 2020 New Note Commission and recently was awarded First Place in the Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition and the 18th Street Arts Center’s 2021 Make Jazz Fellowship. Cornish was also awarded the Grand Prize in the 2018 American Jazz Piano Competition. Currently residing in Los Angeles, Cornish has performed extensively across the globe with such notable artists as Herbie Hancock, Louis Cole, Theo Croker, Snoh Aalegra, Terrace Martin, Mary Stallings, John Legend and Kanye West.




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