(Kurt Elling and Kate McGarry) and an instrumental octet; the work was presented in March 2005 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall as part of a six-city U.S. tour. Accompanist Hersch has worked with instrumentalists and vocalists in the worlds of jazz (Joe Henderson, Charlie Haden, Art Farmer, Stan Getz and Bill Frisell); classical (Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Joshua Bell, Christopher O'Riley, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg); and Broadway (Audra McDonald). Hersch has accompanied jazz vocalists such as Nancy King, Norma Winstone and Kurt Elling. Hersch has taught at The New School and Manhattan School of Music, and conducted a Professional Training Workshop for Young Musicians at The Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall in 2008. Awards and honors Académie Charles Cros Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Composition, 2003 Coup de coeur for Alone at the Vanguard, 2011 Grand Prix du Disque for Alive at the Vanguard, 2012 Pianist of the Year, Jazz Journalists Association, 2011, 2016, 2018 Pianist of the Year, DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll, 2015 Artiste étranger de l'année, Jazz magazine in France, 2015 Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie du Jazz, Solo, 2015 Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts, Northern Kentucky University, 2015 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award 2016 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Grinnell College, 2016 Prix Honorem in Jazz and Coup de cœur jazz, 2017 Book of the Year about Jazz, Good Things Happen Slowly, Jazz Journalists Association, 2018 Hersch has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, grants from Chamber Music America, the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and seven composition residencies at the MacDowell Colony. Grammy Award nominations Art Farmer's A Work of Art in 1983 and two of Eddie Daniels' albums with Hersch in 1986 and 1987 preceded Short Stories, a collaboration between Janis Siegel and Hersch, co-led and co-produced with arrangements by Hersch, that got a nomination for her vocal performance in 1989. In 1992 finally Dancing in the Dark, his seventh trio recording and second for Chesky Records, was nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance. 1992: Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group for Dancing in the Dark 1995: Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group for his solo album I Never Told You: Fred Hersch Plays Johnny Mandel 2005: Best Instrumental Composition for "Valentine" (on In Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis) 2011: Best Jazz Instrumental Album for Alone at the Vanguard, and Best Improvised Jazz Solo for "Work" 2013: Best Improvised Jazz Solo for