Bria Skonberg

Saturday, September 17, 2016 • 8 PM

Sponsored by Michelle and Mark Hiepler

Award-winning trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Bria Skonberg is "poised to be one of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation" (Wall Street Journal) with her adventurous style, rooted in New Orleans jazz and blues, world percussion, soul, and cabaret.

Noted as a millennial "shaking up the jazz world," according to Vanity Fair, in 2013 she earned a Jazz Journalists' Association nomination for "Up and Coming Jazz Artist of The Year" and is included in DownBeat Magazine's Rising Star Critics' Poll for 2013/2014. She has recently been honored with a New York Bistro Award for "Outstanding Jazz Artist" and swept the 2014 Hot House Jazz Magazine Awards in all categories nominated: Best Jazz Artist, Best Trumpet, Best Female Vocalist, and Best Group for the Bria Skonberg Quartet.