Sara Gazarek

Born and raised in Seattle, WA, 3x GRAMMY Award® winning jazz vocalist Sara Gazarek reigns as one of the most creative voices of her generation, and one “who may well turn out to be the next important jazz singer” (Los Angeles Times). Collaborating with jazz legends Fred Hersch, Billy Childs, Kurt Elling, and more, and with 6 critically-acclaimed albums under her belt at the age of 40, Gazarek often tours internationally as a soloist/band leader, and as a co-founder of the vocal collective, säje, whose debut album earned a GRAMMY Award® in 2023 for Best Arrangement Instruments and Vocals, in 2024 for "Alma" and 2025 for "Big Fish". Sara is a 2023 Chamber Music of America New Jazz Works grant recipient, serves on the Board of Trustees for the Recording Academy, and works as an Associate Professor of Jazz Voice at the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) where she designed and is now leading their new jazz voice program. Sara’s full length nonet project, an expansion of her critically celebrated EP Vanity, is set to release in Summer of 2027.