Sasha Berliner

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Sasha Berliner (born June 20, 1998 in San Francisco ) is an American jazz musician ( vibraphone , composition ).

Live and act

Berliner grew up in Oakland . She started learning to play drums when she was eight and has been playing the vibraphone since she was 13. She was trained in the SF Jazz High School All Stars Orchestra and completed the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music . Since 2016 she has been studying in New York City at the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music .

Berliner has been a member of Tyshawn Sorey's sextet since 2018 . She has also worked with her own group and with musicians such as Nicholas Payton , Ravi Coltrane , Beck , Warren Wolf and Victor Wooten . In 2019 she played at major jazz festivals in Canada and the United States.

Prizes and awards

In January 2019 she won the Rising Stars Jazz Award. In 2019 she was nominated in the Down Beat readers 'poll as best vibraphonist and in the JazzTimes readers' poll as best new artist. At the Down Beat Critics Poll 2020 she was the winner in the Vibraphone / Rising Star category.

Discographic notes

  • 2015: gold
  • 2019: azalea

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Artists On The Rise: Sasha Berliner Quartet. SFjazz, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Joe Bebco: Sasha Berliner wins Rising Star Award, Concerts Planned. In: SyncopatedTimes.com. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Winner North American Edition 2018. LetterOne RISING STARS Jazz Award, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Tony Fran Quiz: percussionist Sasha Berlin wins seven-city jazz festival-tour. All About Jazz , accessed March 7, 2020 .
  5. ^ Gold - Sasha Berliner. All About Jazz, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Lily O'Brien: Vibraphonist Sasha Berliner Finds Her Own Groove. In: JazzTimes. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Berliner, Sasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (vibraphone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco