Sara Jacovino

Sara Jacovino is a New York trombonist, composer, and arranger known for her work across the city's big bands and Broadway pit orchestras. She holds chairs in the Birdland Big Band, the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, David Berger and the Sultans of Swing, and Band of Bones, and has also led her own quartet. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of North Texas, where she played in the One O'Clock Lab Band and studied composition with Neil Slater and Paris Rutherford and trombone with Steve Wiest and Tony Baker. After moving to New York in 2008 she joined the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop led by Jim McNeely, and in 2009 she received the BMI Foundation's Charlie Parker Composition Award. She has recorded with the Grammy-winning ensemble Snarky Puppy and held the tenor and bass trombone chair in the Broadway production of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.