From the drum set, Sherrie Maricle will lead her big band The DIVA Jazz Orchestra on the stage of the Stockton Performing Arts Center on Monday, March 26th.
Show time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 and $40 and may be ordered online at www.stockton.edu/pac or by calling the Box Office at (609) 652-9000. The Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and an hour and a half before the performance. For Group Sales, call (609) 652-4786.
"[Sherrie Maricle] is an incredibly gifted drummer who has super human technique combined with first class musicianship…" --Saxophone Journal
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"Maricle drove the evening's music along with a contained fury of the power plant of a nuclear submarine…" --Hamilton Spectator
For musician Sherrie Maricle, her drum set is a real-life metaphor of her career. Just as playing the drums requires coordinating four limbs at the same time, Maricle's career coordinates successes as a jazz artist, music director, teacher, and composer.
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From the drum set Maricle leads her big band The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, her quintet FIVE PLAY, and The DIVA Jazz Trio. From Carnegie Hall, she performs with The New York
Pops and is also the orchestra's Director of Education. As a music director she works with
acclaimed Broadway star Maurice Hines. As a teacher she is on the jazz faculty of The New York State Summer Music Festival and also runs a private drum set and percussion studio. Sherrie is an active clinician for Yamaha Drums, Sabian Cymbals and Vic Firth Drum Sticks and is the creator of The Rhythm, Rhyme and Rap Workshop for children. She is also a busy freelance performer and a published composer/arranger in both the classical and jazz mediums.
DIVA has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, numerous times on CNN Arts Break and was highlighted on The 25th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center television special and the NHK (Japan) Network's New York Jazz. With The New York Pops Sherrie often travels overseas to countries such as Japan and Korea.
As a composer, performer and educator, Sherrie has received several honors which include: The Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival and The Kennedy Center Alliance Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Arts.
