Sasha Berliner

Sasha Berliner (born June 20, 1998) is an American vibraphonist and composer. Early life Berliner was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay Area, where she began playing drums at age 8. In her earlier years, Berliner was more focused on rock and indie music, and she participated in the San Francisco Rock Project (formerly the San Francisco School of Rock) along with her entire family: her father, John Berliner, is a bassist her mother, Sheri Evans, was the school office manager; and Berliner and her brother, Cole, played in the school’s House Band for a number of years. As a teenager, she continued working in a number of genres as a singer and multi-instrumentalist, and in 2013 arranged a version of Beck’s “Please Leave a Light On When You Go” from Song Reader for the San Francisco Rock Project; she also ran a fashion blog, in part inspired by her mother’s work running a boutique in San Francisco. In 2017, she attended the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, then led by composers Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey; Sorey invited Berliner to join his newest sextet the following year. Berliner says the higher-than-usual number of women musicians at Banff and the