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Composer/Arranger
Biography
At age 30, Sherisse Rogers
has already won some of the most prestigious awards in her field. As the
2004 winner of the ASCAP/IAJE Emerging Composer Award in Honor of Count
Basie, she has already proven herself to be such. A Philadelphia native,
Sherisse played many instruments before deciding to become a composer.
In addition to a successful freelance career as a composer/arranger and
orchestrator, she also currently maintains a steady freelance career as
an electric bassist. At a relatively young age, she has already become
well- recognized in the field of jazz composition. She received the 2001
“Best Arrangement” award from The American Society of Musicians Composers
and Arrangers for her orchestral arrangement of “Here’s that Rainy Day”.
She was awarded the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award in years 2003, 2005
and 2008. In 2005 she was awarded the BMI Charlie Parker Jazz Composition
Award for her piece “A Slippery Slope “and was given the Manny Albam Memorial
Commission for the following year where she premiered her large jazz ensemble
piece “I stand Corrected”. In 2006 she received the Herb Albert Foundation/IAJE
Gil Evans Fellowship whose past recipients include 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
Awardee John Hollenbeck and most notably 2-time Grammy award winner Maria
Schneider. Recently she received the 2007 Meet the Composer Van Lier Fellowship,
an award granted to recognized composers of African American or Latino
heritage less than 32 years of age for artistic creation and general financial
support.
A versatile composer, her styles range from jazz and classical to world
music and Rhythm & Blues. She is a regular arranger and orchestrator
for the world-renowned crossover orchestra “The Metropole Orchestra” based
in the Netherlands and was also the featured composer and clinician in
Stockholm, Sweden, where she spent a week both rehearsing her music culminating
in a concert and giving clinics to the students of the Royal College of
Music. In 2007, she was also the featured artists at the Jazz Cologne
07’ jazz festival where her compositions where performed the “Cologne
Contemporary Jazz Orchestra”. In addition to receiving high school and
college commissions, she has also written or arranged music for Dave Liebman
and Peter Erskine. Her works are published by the recognized jazz music
publisher Walrus Music and her music is in the libraries of numerous high
schools and universities throughout the United States.
In 2005, her big band “Project Uprising” released their first recording
entitled Sleight of Hand which received a rare 4.5 star review (out of
5) in well known jazz publication Downbeat Magazine. The CD features respected
jazz saxophonist and composer Dave Liebman, in addition to other special
guests. Her big band has appeared numerous times at The Jazz Gallery in
New York City since 2004. She most recently has been commission by the
latter venue to compose an hour long work for jazz orchestra to be performed
in January of 2009. She has also been newly awarded the composition award
of the 2008 Thelonious Monks' annual composition competition. She holds
a Masters of Music in Jazz Composition from the Manhattan School of Music
where she studied with Michael Abene . Some of her other teachers have
included Jim McNeely, Dave Liebman, and Matt Harris.
