Scott
Sorkin

Scott Sorkin is a guitarist, composer, producer, and recording engineer, and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Scott leads his own trio, co‐leads the international jazz group Crossing Borders with Jennifer Scott and Kristen Strom, and is a member of the Kristen Strom Quartet, and Ed Johnson & Novo Tempo.

 

Performance Credits Include:

• The Count Basie Orchestra

• Mary Wilson (The Supremes)

• Ruthie Foster

• Shemekia Copeland

• Nnenna Freelon

• Robert Greenidge & David Rudder

• Paula West

• Louie Bellson

• Steve Turre & Michael Turre

• Peter Stoltzman

• Taylor Eigsti

• Joe Gilman

• Ndugu Chancler

• Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary)

• National Touring Shows: "MJ, The Musical"

• Danny Elfman's "Music from the Films of Tim Burton", "Dream Girls", Disney's "Newsies", Symphony Silicon Valley: The Lord of the Rings in Concert

• Jerry Miller (Moby Grape)

• Ashwin Batish & Sitar Power

• Silicon Valley Symphony

• PBS Television

• Great Performances

• SFJazz

• Kristen Strom Quartet

• Ed Johnson & Novo Tempo

• Vince Giordano (The Nighthawks)

• Full Faith & Credit Big Band

• The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra

• Colombian recording artist Claudia Gómez

• Larry Grenadier

• Don Haas

• Elijah Rock

• Johnny Coppola

• Mike Vax

• Wesla Whitfield

• Paul Zarzyski

• John Stowell

• Bruce Forman

• Smith Dobson

• Noel Jewkes

• Alfio

• New York Tenors

• Tammy Hall

• Pamela Rose

• Headstock Guitar Ensemble

• Masha Campagne

• John R Burr and Jenna Mammina: "James Taylor; 6 Degrees of Separation"

• John Worley's Worlview

He’s been a featured performer at festivals including the Monterey Jazz Festival, Stanford Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Bellhaven Jazz Festival, Sacramento Jazz Festival, St. Louis Jazz Festival, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, and Jazz on the Wing, in Whitehorse, Yukon, and on tour in venues across the US, Canada and Mexico, playing at
Jazz Alley, The Triple Door, Bake’s Place, the Royal Room, Ballard Jam House, Marines
Memorial Opera House, Café Pink House, California Jazz Conservatory, SFJazz, Kuumbwa
Jazz Center, Yoshi’s, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, The Tabard Theatre, The Sound
Room, Piedmont Piano Company, Impulse Room, and frequently at venues throughout the
San Francisco Bay Area.

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Scott is on the faculty of the Stanford Jazz Workshop and Chabot College, and has been a clinician for Stanford University, San Jose Jazz Summer Camp, San Jose State University, Mission College, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, The Siskiyou Institute, Selkirk College, Los Gatos Music & Arts, The Mountain View Community School of Music & Arts, and is a co-founder of the South Bay Summer Jazz Intensive.