Sasha Berliner

Described a "young mallet master" by JazzTimes, Sasha Berliner is an award winning vibraphonist and composer. The Downbeat Critics Poll #1 Rising Star Vibraphonist and Jazz Journalists' Association runner up for Vibraphonist of the Year has notably shared the stage for recent projects with Christian McBride, Tyshawn Sorey, Marcus Gilmore, and Cecile Mclorin Salvant, and leads her own quintet for international touring. She recently released her award winning sophomore album “Onyx”(2022) through JMI Recordings, her “vigorous, unabashedly avant garde sophomore recording [...] finding the budding, San Francisco-born vibraphonist and composer in a fiery, dense and genre- bending posture.” Glide Magazine urges listeners to “add Berliner to the new vanguard of contemporary artists that are reshaping jazz with unconventional compositional approaches”. For more on Ms. Berliner, please visit her website at https://www.sashaberlinermusic.com.

Title: 
Lecturer
Specialization: 
Jazz Combo and Jazz Composition
E-mail: 
sberline@uci.edu