SARAH WILSON ENSEMBLE: New Music Inspired By Napa Residency

Sarah Wilson has emerged as “one of the most intriguing and promising composers and trumpeters on the contemporary music scene,” (Derk Richardson, San Francisco Chronicle).  Her original work has premiered internationally and earned numerous commissions including a 2010 Artistic Innovation Grant from The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), and a prestigious 2011 Composer Collaboration Award from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Her Red Poppy concert will premiere music commissioned by CCI and the Zellerbach Family Foundation written in tribute to her Jazz mentors Myra Melford, Laurie Frink and Carla Bley.

Wilson’s most recent CD, Trapeze Project (Brass Tonic Records) has earned wide critical acclaim appearing on multiple Best of 2010 lists for its sophisticated yet accessible approach as a diverse, Jazz/Pop music that moves freely across genre and style. DownBeat Magazine gave her an Editor’s Pick describing her “very individual voice…she makes music her own way (Frank Alkyer).

Drawing on a unique musical background, she writes music “evocative, elegant and comfortably familiar all at once”(Time Out NY), which has stylistically evolved through a diverse experience with Jazz, theater, film, animation, performance art and traditional music studies.  In 2012, Wilson will be a de Young Museum Artist Fellow.

Sarah Wilson: trumpet/vocals
John Schott: electric guitar
Lisa Mezzacappa: bass
Jordan Glenn: drums

“A singular jazz artist with a tremendously evocative book of original material.”  — Andrew Gilbert, Contra Costa Times

“Sarah Wilson is making quite a name for herself on the Bay Area jazz scene.” — Jim Harrington, Oakland Tribune

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$12-$20 admission.  Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.