Pianist, Composer, and Educator Jarrett Cherner was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He moved to Boston in 1999 to attend Tufts University and subsequently the New England Conservatory of Music. In 2003 he graduated from Tufts with a B.S. in Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and in 2004 he completed an Undergraduate Diploma in Jazz Piano Performance at the New England Conservatory.  Primary teachers have included Danilo Pérez, Michael Cain, Frank Carlberg, John Lockwood, Warren Senders & Jerry Bergonzi.

            In November of 2005 Cherner recorded his first album as a leader, Burgeoning, which was released in May of 2006.  The album features Jarrett’s original compositions and the talented team of Jorge Roeder on bass and Jorge Pérez-Albela on drums and percussion.

            Cherner has toured nationally and internationally, performing at venues such as JazzZone (Lima, Perú), Ryles Jazz Club (Cambridge, MA), Jordan Hall (Boston, MA), Nectar’s (Burlington, VT), Zeitgeist Gallery/Lily Pad (Cambridge, MA), Yoshi's (Oakland, CA), Jazz at Pearl's (San Francisco, CA), Jazzschool (Berkeley, CA), Rockwood Music Hall (NYC, NY), La Ve Lee (Los Angeles, CA), Vibrato (Bel Air, CA), and festivals including Jazz in Lima (Perú), San Francisco Jazz Festival (CA), San Jose Jazz Festival (CA), Sonoma Jazz Festival (CA), Fillmore Jazz Festival (CA), North Beach Jazz Festival (CA) & the Cape Cod Jazz Festival (MA).

            While living in Boston Cherner performed throughout the northeastern US, and in addition to his piano trio and other freelance jazz work, he performed regularly with the Chicken Slacks soul revue band, the pop influenced Audrey Ryan Band, and Amphis Baena, an electro-jazz trio featuring sax, keyboards, and drums. Active as a composer as well as performer, he received an honorable mention from the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards 2005/2006.

            In January of 2006, facing yet another dawning winter in Boston, Cherner relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area where he has become an active and in demand pianist on the vibrant West Coast jazz scene, playing with groups such as the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, Collective West Jazz Orchestra, Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Kenny Dorham Project, Kasey Knudsen Sextet, Fred Randolph Quintet, Terrence Brewer Group, Orquesta Bakan, and running a weekly jazz jam session in San Francisco at Grant & Green in North Beach.

            Cherner taught at Summerbridge San Francisco in 2002, the Talented and Gifted Hispanic summer program 2003 at UMass Boston, the JazzSchool's Summer Youth Program 2006 in Berkeley, the San Jose Jazz Summer Camp 2007 & 2008, and has been a faculty member at the Music Maker School in Acton, MA and Music’s Cool in Londonderry, NH. He currently maintains a small private piano studio in addition to his performance schedule.