Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Music
Drumset Co-Coordinator

PHD, New York University
MM, New York University
BA, Suny Binghamton

Contact Info

School of Music

Terra Hall 1005

“Maricle staked her claim as one of the great big band drummers.” – Scott Yanow, Jazz Around Town

Sherrie Maricle is a busy freelance performer, a published composer/arranger and a dedicated educator, clinician, guest conductor and soloist. 

Biography
From the drum set Sherrie Maricle leads the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, her quintet FIVE PLAY and co-leads the 3D Jazz Trio. With her bands, Maricle has performed at many of the world’s most acclaimed music venues and festivals, from Lincoln Center to the Kennedy Center, and from the Hollywood Bowl to jazz festivals in Germany, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Ireland, England, Croatia, Japan, Vietnam and Israel and beyond. Additionally, Maricle and DIVA were featured at the 2017 NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony, the soundtrack for the NBC-Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular, on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, on TCM’s televised broadcast of the 25th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center and NHK Japan’s New York Jazz. The band also co-stars in the award-winning documentary film The Girls in the Band.

Maricle’s recent recordings include The DIVA Jazz Orchestra 30 (2023), The DIVA Jazz Orchestra Swings Broadway (2022), The 3D Jazz Trio 9 to 5 (2022) and Five Play Live at The Firehouse Stage (2019)

Maricle holds a PhD in Jazz Performance from New York University.

Experience

  • As an educator, Maricle runs a private drum set and percussion studio.
  • She is also a clinician for Yamaha Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Aquarian Drumheads and Vic Firth Drumsticks.
  • From coast to coast, she also serves as a guest conductor, soloist and adjudicator for collegiate and high school jazz festivals. Fifteen years ago, Maricle created, and remains, the Music Director for Musical Magic, a hospital outreach program for The Ronald McDonald House – New York.
  • Maricle graduated from Union-Endicott High School in Endicott, New York, in 1981. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Binghamton University, New York, in 1985, and then moved to New York City to attend New York University, where she completed a Master of Arts in Jazz Performance in 1986 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Jazz Performance/Composition in 2000.


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Awards & Accolades 
Maricle has received an impressive amount of awards and honors, including

  • the 2022 Ronald McDonald House, New York’s Music for Hope award;
  • a 2016 Audelco Award for Best Musical for Tappin’ Thru Life,  
  • a 2014 Ovation award for Best Music Direction in Tappin Thru Life,
  • the 2009 Mary Lou Williams-Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award,
  • a 2013 State Department grant for FIVE PLAY to tour Vietnam, 
  • a tour grant from Arts International, 
  • the Kennedy Center Alliance Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Arts, 
  • a grant from Meet the Composer,
  •  a doctoral fellowship from New York University, 
  • the New York City Music Educators Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education and 
  • two New York University’s “Music Teacher of the Year” honors.