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Sarah LeMieux

Sarah LeMieux is a composer, performer, and educator. As a performer, her primary genres are Jazz and Acoustic/Americana, but as a composer she works across genres, from Electroacoustic and Experimental, to Chamber, Bluegrass, Folk and String music.

Sarah and her ensembles have played at the National Women in Blues Festival, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Hartford's Infinity Hall, and the historic Oakdale Theater. The Sarah LeMieux Quintet won "Best Jazz" at the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Connecticut Music Awards, with "Moments Musicaux" winning Album of the Year for 2015. Sarah also composes for and performs with the award-winning six piece Americana band The Girls from Ruby Falls, and Madame Thalia's Vaudeville review, as well as creating Electroacoustic music and audiovisual installations. Her original score for “Monday and the Winter Moon” won Best Composer at CIFT Festival of Toronto, was an Official Selection at the Southeast International Film and Music Festival 2020, and was Semi-Finalist, Best Composer, Montreal Independent Film Festival (November 2020).

In 2020, LeMieux released "Jazz for the End of the World," featuring Aaron Wyanski, Ethan Foote, and Andy Chatfield.

Awards

Best Composer, CIFT Festival of Toronto (2020)

Official Selection, Southeast International Film and Music Festival (2020)

Semi-Finalist, Best Composer, Montreal Independent Film Festival (November 2020)

Connecticut Music Award for Best Jazz (2014, 2015, 2016);

CT Album of the Year, “Moments Musicaux,” (2015)

CT Best Country/Americana, the Girls from Ruby Falls “Tennessee Wildflowers” (2016)

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“The songs on “Jazz for the End of the World” are alluringly portentous. It’s tempestuous music made for uncertain times. During pandemic the jazz clubs are closed, but Lemieux’s vocals evoke all the smoke and whiskey of a dark barroom.”

- JUSTIN PAPP, HEARST CT MEDIA

“LeMieux calls her music "chamber jazz," and it's easy to understand why. An agile guitarist and singer, LeMieux composes for instruments normally associated with classical music — clarinet, viola, flute, double bass and harp, in various combinations — with an advanced sense of harmony and counterpoint. Her ensemble plays with studied confidence and grace, and they're in no rush; songs lope along in round, swing-heavy grooves. ”