BACAHS member, acclaimed harpist Sarah Voynow, is excited to share with all her love of jazz and Dorothy Ashby, jazz harpist and composer (1930-1986). Ashby extended the popularization of jazz harp past a novelty, showing how the instrument can be utilized seamlessly as much a bebop instrument as the saxophone.
Sarah and her trio of top-notch jazz musicians from San Francisco, including Pat Klobas on bass and Dave Rokeach on drums/percussion, will entertain, educate, and regale you with standards and popular music and insight into how did we get here–from classical to jazz harp! The concert takes place on Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 4pm. A reception will follow. Purchase your tickets. Bring your family and friends–members and their guests get the same great discounted price!
Read Sarah’s impressive bio:
Sarah Voynow began playing the harp growing up in Hawaii and began formal music studies three years later at 9 when her family moved to Ogden, Utah. Two years later Sarah honed her ear training and improvisation on a practical level and learned to rely on customers humming favorite standards while playing for the tea hour afterschool at the Sun Valley Lodge in Idaho. Later on, she received Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Music of Arts degrees at The Juilliard School under Susann McDonald and later, Nancy Allen. Sarah toured and recorded with clarinetist, Richard Stoltzman and Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd in addition to playing and recording with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York Philharmonic, The Detroit Symphony, chamber music with Columbia Artist Management and various Broadway shows. She has won several awards including 1st prize at the Lyon and Healy International Jazz/Pop Harp Competition in 1990.
As a freelancer, she currently performs with the San Francisco Ballet, television, motion picture and gaming recordings at Skywalker Sound and the San Francisco Opera. She is soloist on recordings with The SF Gay Men’s Chorus, San Francisco Girls and Boys Chorus and music for Grace Cathedral’s labyrinth walk with Musica Divina. Sarah has performed with Jon Faddis and The Stanford Jazz Orchestra, Ray Charles, hip hop band The Coup, SF Punk Rock Orchestra, Art Garfunkel, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, Barry Manilow, and other popular artists. Sarah can also be heard on the Advanced Brain Technologies records utilizing classical Music For Babies, which won several awards including Parent’s Magazine Choice Award and improvising a harp solo with bassist Ken Miller to the film soundtrack, Two Lovers.
The harpist has taught at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the Preparatory and Extension Divisions in addition to maintaining her private teaching practice in San Francisco.
Come out and support your BAC member harpists. Tickets available at www.centerfornewmusic.com.
See you at the concert!