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MONIKA HERZIG

 

Award-winning pianist, scholar, published author, and 2025 South Arts Creative Residency Grant Recipient Dr. Monika Herzig explodes into 2026 with Transparent, her 13th LP release as leader and modern-jazz headliner (Key of B Records).

With a glittering discography and worldwide performance history spanning 3 decades of music, Monika Herzig charges fearlessly ahead into new territories of jazz and composition on her powerful new 2026 album about issues facing transgender individuals and their families. Transparent is a modern odyssey in music and a technicolor flight of contemporary jazz.

Dr. Monika Herzig is a decorated lecturer and performer of jazz. She holds the prestigious Vice Rector chair at Jam Music Lab University in Vienna and will soon celebrate the 15th anniversary of the publication of her book David Baker: A Legacy in Music (2011, Indiana University Press).

Herzig has been featured at major festivals and on historic stages around the world and also leads the elite all-female jazz group Sheroes. Monika Herzig is based in both Vienna and in Indiana, where she shares a home with her husband, guitarist and composer Peter Kienle.

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Transparent (2026, Key of B Records)

International jazz pianist Monika Herzig expands her extensive LP catalog with her new instrumental jazz album Transparent from Key of B Records. Merging listenable instrumental melodies with exciting themes, Transparent is a portrait in modern jazz of yesterday and tomorrow. Highlighting Monika Herzig’s renowned original compositions as well as a reimagination of Elton John’s hit Your Song, Transparent is a sleek 11-track collection of carefully curated new modern classics.

Transparent, an audible family portrait and a piece about transpersons’ rights, showcases Monika Herzig as a leader, composer, and formidable force of piano and keyboard skill. With the changing landscape of individual freedoms in the United States and worldwide, Herzig’s empowered album is a stark statement in a society of grey areas. Herzig’s graceful melodic lines are punctuated by slick stops and unexpected turns, much like parenting can be. Made possible by South Arts, Transparent was composed as part of a research project honoring transgender persons and their families.

Monika Herzig’s extensive career has established her as a global force of modern instrumental jazz. With Transparent she stands boldly, unyielding to societal pressure, to proclaim her motherly love for her own family. Transparent is organically sincere, complex but approachable, and humbly vulnerable. Stream new singles starting January, 2026; Tickets now on sale for album pre-release show featuring performance art, January 30-31 2026 at Constellation Stage, Bloomington, Indiana.