VIC FIRTH ARTIST
SHERRIE MARICLE

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, and teacher, and composer.

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.

With The DIVA Jazz Orchestra and FIVE PLAY she has performed at many of the world's most acclaimed music venues which include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Tanglewood, the Kennedy Center, the Hollywood Bowl, Symphony Halls in Philadelphia, Cleveland and Saint Louis, the SS Norway and QE2 Jazz Cruises, Jazz Festivals throughout the United States and abroad, including Croatia, Colombia, Finland, Germany, Italy, England, Holland, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France and Switzerland.
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,
winning slots for DIVA and herself in Down Beat magazine's annual Reader's Poll, a feature story in Modern Drummer magazine (for whom she has also authored several articles), a tour grant for DIVA from Arts International, The Kennedy Center Alliance Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Arts, a grant from Meet the Composer, a Doctoral Fellowship from New York University and being voted NYU Music Teacher of the Year (1997, 2000). Additionally, FIVE PLAY's premier recording On the Brink was voted the #1 CD of 1999 by Nat Hentoff in Jazz Times magazine.