Andy Wrba

Andy Wrba has been sparking the Berkshires jazz and contemporary music scene for years. He founded the Berkshire Jazz Collective and has organized the annual Lenox Jazz Stroll, Pittsfield’s free screenings of Tanglewood in the City, MASS MoCA concerts, and streaming performances of local musicians during the pandemic. A fixture at Mission restaurant in Pittsfield, Wrba has rotated top-caliber jazz musicians through Pittsfield. He has accomplished all this while being Hudson Valley Magazine’s 2021 award-winning teacher at The Darrow School. “Andy is motivated, creative and selflessly working to prove the Berkshires music scene world class in all forms of music,” says Paul Friedrichs, a Berkshire summer resident and regular at Mission.