Micah Thomas

Laureate of the Grand Prix Charles Cros 2022, Micah Thomas will perform for the first time under his name in France, on the occasion of the recent release of his album Piano Solo, which was unanimously acclaimed!

"A new step in the art of piano playing by a 25 year old musician. If there is a major event, it is this first solo album. Daniel Yvinec

A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music in 2020, Micah Thomas immediately made his mark on the New York landscape. Member of Immanuel Wilkins' quartet, he collaborates with Ambrose Akinmusire, Joel Ross, Billy Drummond... 

The impression that emanates from this album Piano Solo is rare. Sophistication, spontaneity, an immense culture and limitless technical means are combined here to serve a discourse which, because it is never predictable, always fascinates us. Micah Thomas is an architect and a storyteller; he knows the history of jazz in all its corners and celebrates it with an exceptional drive for life. Imbued with a classical culture that favors counterpoint, he draws his own version of the tradition, imprinting on it a vision so personal that one can hardly detect its influences. One thinks of the immense Art Tatum for this faculty to "compose" live and to ignore with superb the ergonomic limits of the instrument. This essential album reshuffles the cards.