RENOWNED BAY-AREA COMPOSER-TRUMPETER SARAH WILSON & HER QUINTET LIVE IN CONCERT

Join Bay Area composer/trumpeter/singer-songwriter Sarah Wilson, as she performs in Mill Valley with her Quintet - violinist Charlie Burnham, guitarist John Schott, bassist Jerome Harris, and drummer Matt Wilson.

These concerts will feature recent commissions Wilson received from The Center for Cultural Innovation andZellerbach Family Foundation to write music in tribute to her female jazz mentors, Carla Bley, Laurie Frink and Myra Melford. "While I don't know Carla Bley personally, it was at her 1999 Knitting Factory concert that I finally saw a model for what I wanted to do...just be up there and have the focus be on my music," says Wilson.  "If these women hadn't paved the road for me, I never would've been able to do what I do. They made it possible for me to follow my musical path." 

Wilson has emerged as "one of the most intriguing and promising composers and trumpeters on the contemporary music scene," (Derk Richardson, San Francisco Chronicle).  Most recently she was one of 6 California composers awarded a prestigious Composers Collaborative grant from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This grant will fund the world premiere of Wilson's music production with dance, "Off the Walls" at San Francisco's de Young Museum in fall 2012. Wilson will be a 2011-2012 Artist Fellow at the de Young Museum with funding from the James Irvine Foundation.