Anton Kot — artist
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 2022 Litchfield Jazz Festival and 2023 Pittsfield City Jazz Festival. His acts included saxophonist Don Braden, Albert Rivera, bassist Avery Sharpe, trumpeter Jean Caze, pianist Caili O’Doherty, and Tyler Bullock II. Receiving a standing ovation, Litchfield festival Founder, Vita Muir exclaimed in A Triumph at 27!, “One audience member called Anton ‘a highlight in the 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 and Ideas with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra directed by Alasdair Neale. Since the start of his career, Anton has performed at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, Mezzrow, The Django, Le Duc des Lombards (Paris), Sunset/Sunside (Paris), Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, Carnegie Hall, the rational 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. Anton has performed, recorded, or collaborated with Sean Jones, Kurt Elling, Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Miller, Ken Peplowski, Cy Leo, Chico Freeman, Janis Siegel, Manuel Valera, Dezron Douglas, Ari Hoenig, Alan Broadbent, Tatum Greenblatt, Pak Sumarsam, and I.M. Harjito.