Tiffany Pfeiffer Trio

About

Tiffany Pfeiffer is a jazz chameleon—she becomes what she is in the moment of a song. Morphed into an emotional current, she blends generational roots from Appalachia with a classical sensitivity and an edge of improvisational joy.

A vocalist, composer & educator, Tiffany relocated to Vermont from Brooklyn, NY, in 2008, in search of a more sustainable lifestyle. She grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, started singing at age 4, and made music her life’s study and passion, along with helping others to access their unique selves through music.

Tiffany began practicing yoga in her early 20s, and found through her yoga & meditation practice, along with years of travel, inquiry, teaching, and collaboration, a steady connection to intuition and healing through creative work. She received her MFA in music composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2019, worked as Assistant Director of the program from 2020-2022, and maintains a private teaching studio for voice, piano & songwriting. She has released two albums, including an original EP, Amor Frio, in 2010, and an EP of jazz standards, Stampede of Love, in 2016. She is currently performing her new original work with Jane Kittredge on violin and Zoe Keating on cello.

Parker Shper is a pianist and composer who grew up in Central Vermont, playing piano by ear from a young age. In 2005, he moved to Montreal to attend McGill University where he pursued studies in Jazz Piano Performance. During his studies he spent a year living abroad in Sweden, studying music at the University of Gothenburg, forming ongoing connections with musicians from the creative Scandinavian music scene.

He has performed piano, synths and Hammond organ with such artists as Leif Vollebekk, Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Michael Chorney, Anais Mitchell, The Barr Brothers, Craig Finn (The Holdsteady), Trey Anastasio, Alexi Murdoch, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Land of Talk, Akil the MC (Jurassic 5), and many more.

For the past 15 years, upright bass player JD Haenni has been a staple of the New Orleans music scene. Playing a wide range of styles around the Crescent City, he has performed and recorded with many pillars of the jazz world including Carl Leblanc, Warren Battiste, James Andrews, Jamil Sharif, Jason Marsalis and Steve DeTroy. Since moving to Vermont in 2023, JD has been quickly expanding into new territory in Burlington and across the Northeast, bringing his New Orleans feel to the bands of Ray Vega, Alex Stewart, Dan Ryan, Jon McBride, Dwight Ritcher and many others.