Bio - Lisa Sanchez
With extensive experience as a bandleader, soloist, and freelance jazz and pop musician, guitarist / vocalist Lisa Sanchez is a perennial on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. She has performed in many different settings including clubs, concerts, hotels, restaurants, theater bands, recordings, and commercials. Highlights include a seven year run with her own trio at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco; pit work with the Urban Theater, Julian Theater, and Theater on the Square; and a CD recording, Vocalist/Guitarist (1990). She has appeared in the entertainment line up of the People in Plazas concert series in San Francisco every year since 1994. Right now she is working on a new CD with a projected release in 2012.
Lisa studied guitar with Dave Smith, Duncan James and Warren Nunes and voice with Jane Sharp and Mark Murphy. She holds a B.A. in music from San Francisco State University where she was a member of the music faculty from 1996-2004. She is currently on the teaching staff of Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA and the Stanford Continuing Studies Program, Stanford, CA.
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