Sarah Jane Cion is an American author and

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pianist.

Music career

Sarah Jane Cion received the Boston Jazz Society Award in 1988. She graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1990. In 1991, she was chosen as one of four pianists to attend the Banff School of Fine Arts, with faculty of Steve Coleman, Rufus Reid,

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Marvin Smith Marvin "Smitty" Smith (born June 24, 1961) is an American jazz drummer and composer. Marvin Smith was born in Waukegan, Illinois, where his father, Marvin Sr., was a drummer. "Smitty" was exposed to music at a young age, receiving formal musica ...

Kenny Wheeler Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards. Most of his performances were rooted in jazz, but he was also active i ...

and

Dave Holland David “Dave” Holland (born 1 October 1946) is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for over 40 years. His extensive discography r ...

. In July 1996, she worked with

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in his jazz workshop in Verbier, Switzerland. She won the 17th Annual Great American Jazz Piano Competition held in

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, in 1999. She appeared on the

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radio ''Piano Jazz'' with

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. The Sarah Jane Cion Trio was the opening act for the

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Quartet at the Mellon Jazz Festival in

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. The Trio was presented in concert by Savannah On Stage in March 2001, and at the

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Stage in Washington D.C. in May 2001. A request festival performer, Cion also played in the Kennedy Center Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival, The Minnesota Jazz Festival, WJCT Jacksonville and the Indy Jazz Fest. Cion's recordings highlighting her original compositions include ''Summer Night'', featuring saxophonist Michael Brecker (#12 on the Yellowdog jazz chart), ''Moon Song'', among the top selling modern jazz albums in Japan (2000) with Chris Potter, and ''Indeed!'' with Antonio Hart. She has performed and recorded with many other artists including Clark Terry,

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Anita O'Day Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band app ...

, Della Griffin, Carmen Leggio, Gerry Neiwood, Bucky Pizzarelli, Dr. Lyn Christie, Don Braden, James McBride and the BMI Jazz Orchestra among many others. Cion performs in the major jazz venues of the United States. She has brought her magic to New York's Blue Note, Iridium, Birdland, Mezzrow, and New Hersey's Trumpets, Cecil's, The Cornerstone, and Ceceres. Cion's book Modern Jazz Piano (published by Hal Leonard) is the standard theory manual at Princeton University. Her music has appeared on ABC's long-running daytime soap, ''All My Children'', and her original composition "Golden Song" appeared in the movie '' Thor: The Dark World,'' as well as "Cat in the Hat" in Clint Eastwood's 2019 ''The Mule.'' She has toured Israel, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Austria and England.Naxos profile: Sarah Jane Cion
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Discography

Books

Sarah Jane Cion has authored or contributed to the following music-related works: * * ''A Baker’s Dozen: 13 Contemporary Jazz Etudes: Studies and Etudes for the Intermediate/Advanced'' * ''The Pianist's Jammin’ Handbook!'' * ''Steinway Library Of Piano Music: Jazz Piano — Pieces To Grow On'' (2006) *

References

External links

Official website
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