March 23, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
The Alex Sjobeck Trio Celebrates Women's History Month
Sunday March 23rd
McCall Community Church, 901 1st St, McCall
7pm
Women’s History Month Jazz Celebration
March is Women’s History Month and we are celebrating with an all women’s jazz trio! The trio features Los Angeles based musicians Sophia Augustine (bass) and Jackie Rush (drums) as well as Alex Sjobeck (piano).
Sophia Augustine is a jazz bassist who just recently graduated from Cal State University Northridge with a bachelors in Jazz Studies. Currently based in Los Angeles, she just recently recorded an album with Sam Tru as well as played on a newly released album called Lana Drincic and Friends by Lana Drincic. Being fresh out of school, she continues to pursue her bass playing while playing in groups around the city, as well as playing in other genres that range outside of jazz.
Jackie Rush is a graduate of the Bob Cole Conservatory of music at California State University Long Beach as a KKJZ Scholar with a Bachelor of Music Performance with an emphasis in Jazz Studies. Post graduation, she had the opportunity to be a part of the Everything I Know About Love tour playing drums with jazz/pop singer Laufey in fall of 2022 and most recently played drums on the Fish Bird Baby Boy tour with New Zealand based singer GeorgiaGetsBy. She is currently based in the LA area playing professionally, recording, coaching at various schools, as well as teaching privately.
Alex Sjobeck is an award winning jazz composer and pianist. She has performed at esteemed music festivals, jazz society concerts, and jazz clubs across the nation. She began her professional career while attending the Manhattan School of Music on scholarship and studying under some of the world’s finest jazz pianists. After graduating, she began teaching at the famed jazz program at the University of Northern Colorado as a teaching assistant while attaining her master’s degree. Sjobeck currently teaches in the jazz program at Boise State University and is based out of Boise, ID.
Active as a performer, touring artist, recording artist, composer, and educator, Alex Sjobeck has released four albums as leader and co-leader, composed music for film, toured with a variety of ensembles and has presented workshops and masterclasses throughout the United States.
Her latest critically acclaimed duo album, Pictures in Time, made it onto the Nominating Ballot for the 2023 GRAMMY Awards and received rave reviews from All About Jazz and Contemporary Fusion Reviews, among others. Recently, March of 2024, Sjobeck’s composition “Silhouette” was selected as a semi-finalist at the International Songwriting Competition in the categories of “Jazz” and “Music Video” and the film co-produced by Sjobeck bearing the same name was recognized at many film festivals. Her duo piece, “Blue Light”, was selected for the Young Composers Showcase which she performed for the conference in Orlando, Florida.
Sjobeck has performed at esteemed music festivals, jazz society concerts, and jazz clubs including Dazzle (Denver, CO), Smalls Jazz Club (New York City, NY), The Velvet Note (Atlanta, GA), The 1905 (Portland, OR), The Royal Room (Seattle, WA), the Gene Harris Jazz Festival, the UNC•Greeley Jazz Festival, and the Commencement Bay Jazz Festival. Sjobeck is also currently on faculty at Boise State University. She began her professional career while attending the Manhattan School of Music on scholarship and studying under some of the world’s finest jazz pianists.
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