Camille Thurman is a gifted saxophonist who has been likened to tenor greats Joe Henderson and Dexter Gordon. Her skills as a vocalist have generated comparisons to Ella Fitzgerald and Betty Carter. Camille and her band, the Darrell Green Trio, recently a performed an outstanding concert at WGBH to a sold out audience in our Fraser Performance studio.
Ms. Thurman is currently touring with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis as a featured performer. She has worked with an impressive roster of Jazz and R&B icons including Wynton Marsalis, Audra MacDonald, and Erykah Badu. An accomplished musician, educator and composer, Camille and her band have toured throughout the United States and around the world.
Camille’s honors include the Martin E. Segal Lincoln Center Award for Outstanding Young Artists, two ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers awards and the Fulbright Scholars Cultural Ambassador Grant to Nicaragua and Paraguay.
