Biography

Sharon has been a secondary school music teacher for 28 years throughout southwestern Ontario. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree at UofT and her Masters degree at UWO. Over the years, Sharon has produced a number of provincial and nationally recognized award-winning Concert Choirs and Jazz Vocal Ensembles. In addition, Sharon wrote the curriculum and successfully taught the first-ever Vocal Jazz Program for the Don Wright Faculty of Music, at the University of Western Ontario in the fall of 2006 .

Sharon has been performing as a Jazz vocalist for the last 12 years. Eleven of those years were spent performing with the Prime Time Big Band, under the direction of George Laidlaw. In addition, Sharon was also one of the featured jazz vocalists in the “Three Jazz Divas” Show performing in Toronto, at the Metro Toronto Convention Center, as well as Hamilton Place – Studio Theatre from 2003-2005. In August, 2007, Sharon was featured in a “Jazz Divas” show at the Aeolian Hall. She performed at the Canadian Big Band Festival in Port Elgin, in September 2008 with the Prime Time Big Band.

The majority of Sharon’s performances however, involve singing in small Jazz combos throughout southwestern Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan (courtesy of the Bluewater Jazz Society). She has sung at numerous performances for the London Jazz Society, the Wolf Auditorium - Jazz for the People (2010), the Can-Am Jazz Festival (2004 - 2009), the Minton Jazz Festival (2006), the Georgian Sound Festival (April 2009), as well as a variety of jazz concerts at London’s beautiful Aeolian Hall and the Cronyn Centre.

Sharon has been the featured jazz vocalist in 3 other CD recordings over the last five years and is very excited about the overwhleming response to her debut album “Movin’ in a Slow Groove”.  She is grateful for all the talented musicians that she has had the privilege of working with on this latest project!

Local retailers within the London area carry Sharon’s CD:   L’Atelier Grigorian (Richmond St. & Central Ave.), as well as Belle Air Music  (both locations: King & Richmond and Fanshawe Rd. & Richmond) as well as the London Musicians Office on Dundas St., beside the Kingsmills store and at The Village Idiot (135 Wortley St.)