Hyeonseon Baek Quartet
Presented by Five Spot Jazz
Sunday, June 21, 2026, 8PM & 9PM
Five Spot Jazz
(231 E 9th Street, New York, NY 10003)
Tickets: $30
Jazz vocalist and songwriter Hyeonseon Baek makes his debut at Five Spot Jazz on Sunday, June 21. Featuring Adam Birnbaum on piano, Caleb Tobocman on bass, and Aaron Seeber on drums, the quartet will present two sets of music drawing from the Great American Songbook alongside original compositions.
Baek is a 2026 NYSCA grant recipient and 2025 Queens Arts Fund grantee whose work blends the bebop tradition with contemporary original music.
▲ Performers
Hyeonseon Baek - Vocals
Adam Birnbaum - Piano
Caleb Tobocman - Bass
Aaron Seeber - Drums
Hyeonseon Baek is a New York City–based Korean jazz vocalist, songwriter, and educator whose work explores connections across cultural and generational boundaries. His debut album Longing (2024), featuring Kevin Hays, Linda May Han Oh, Jochen Rueckert, and Lucas Pino, was named one of Jazz Weekly’s Top 10 Albums of the Year and received a four-star review from All About Jazz.
Adam Birnbaum is a New York City–based jazz pianist, composer, educator, and Steinway Artist whose playing combines lyrical sensitivity, harmonic depth, and a deep connection to the jazz tradition. A former Cole Porter Fellow and winner of the American Jazz Piano Competition, he has performed with Al Foster, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Regina Carter, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and serves as Chair of Jazz Studies at Purchase College, SUNY.
Caleb Tobocman is one of New York’s most in-demand rising bass stars. Having grown up in a musical family (in the legendary artist building Manhattan Plaza), Caleb picked up the upright bass at the age of 16 and it was apparent he was a natural. In a few short years, he has already shared the bandstand with jazz greats such as Vincent Herring, George Coleman, Nicholas Payton, David Hazeltine, Eric Alexander, Veronica Swift, Grant Stewart, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Emmet Cohen, Pasquale Grasso, and Benny Bennack III, among others. Caleb studied at Manhattan School of Music under legends Ron Carter and Buster Williams.
Aaron Seeber is a Queens-based jazz drummer and rising presence on the New York City jazz scene. A graduate of SUNY Purchase, where he studied with Kenny Washington and John Riley, he has performed with artists including Eric Reed, Johnny O’Neal, Eric Alexander, Warren Wolf, Grant Stewart, Jeremy Pelt, Gary Smulyan, Mike LeDonne, and the Grammy-winning vocal group New York Voices. His debut album First Move, featuring Warren Wolf, Tim Green, Sullivan Fortner, and Ugonna Okegwo, was released on Cellar Live Records.