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)

• Shemekia Copeland

• Nneenna 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)

• Touring shows "Dream Girls", Disney's "Newsies", "MJ, The Musical"

• Danny Elfman's "Music from the Films of Tim Burton"

• Symphony Silicon Valley: The Lord of the Rings in Concert

• Jerry Miller (Moby Grape)

• Ashwin Batish

• Silicon Valley Symphony

• Great Performances

• PBS Television

• 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 Goméz

• Larry Grenadier

• Don Haas

• Elijah Rock

• Johnny Coppola

• Mike Vax

• Weslia Witfield

• Paul Zarzyski

• John Stowell

• Bruce Forman

• Smith Dobson

• Noel Jewkes

• Jack Sheldon

• Alfio

• New York Tenors

• Tammy Hall

• Pamela Rose

• Masha Campagne

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

• John Worley's Worlview

He’s been featured at many festivals including the Monterey Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, and Jazz on the Wing, in Whitehorse, Yukon.

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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.