Event Contact: Dr Christopher Kocher
Contact Email: christopher.kocher@usd.edu
Contact Phone: 6056583466
Event URL: https://www.usd.edu/livemusic
Event Locator: 2026-ACHTGV

Join USD's Jazz ensembles and special guest Sherrie Maricle for an evening of music, live from Colton Recital Hall, Warren M Lee Center for the Fine Arts, and livestreamed via the link elsewhere on this post.
 
 
From the drum set Sherrie Maricle leads The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, her quintet FIVE PLAY and co-leads the 3D Jazz Trio. She is also a busy freelance performer and a published composer/arranger. Sherrie has performed at many of the world’s most acclaimed music venues and festivals. She was featured at the NEA Jazz Master’s Awards Ceremony, on the soundtrack for the NBC-Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular and on TCM’s broadcast of the 25th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center. She also co-stars in the award-winning documentary film The Girls in the Band. Sherrie has received several awards and honors including the 2023 Yamaha Music in Education, Legacy Award, 2022 Ronald McDonald House – New York’s Music for Hope award and the 2009 Mary Lou Williams-Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award. Sherrie runs a drum set studio in West Chester, PA and from coast-to-coast she serves as a guest conductor, soloist, and adjudicator for professional, collegiate and high school jazz festivals.  In 2000 Sherrie earned a PhD in Jazz performance and composition from New York University.