• The Battery San Francisco (map)
  • 717 Battery Street
  • San Francisco, CA, 94111
  • United States

The Battery is hosting a festive "Holiday Market" on Friday, 12/13/24, and they have invited the Monarch Jazz Trio to be a part of the festivities! The Battery exists to provide its Members an ideal social environment for interaction & inspiration. They play host to bright minds with big ideas, provide an atmosphere that’s simultaneously stimulating and relaxing, and offer cocktails, cuisine and culture worthy of discussion. The performance is for members and invited guests. Please inquire about guests tickets via the host!

The Monarch Jazz Trio celebrates music embodying the rare flavor of harmonic opulence and lyrical elegance of decades past. Join us in The Library Room to experience Holiday Classics with a jazz twist!

Thu Ho leads the Monarch Jazz Trio with her artistic direction and dynamic vocal styling. Having trained in Jazz, Broadway, Classical, and R&B music, Thu's voice is imbued with a unique blend of power, clarity, richness, depth, and warmth. Thu has worked with ensembles led by the great Victor Wooten and the Wooten Brothers, internationally acclaimed saxophonist & composer Joe Lovano, legendary drummer Akira Tana, the Diablo Jazz Company, Yancie Taylor, Rolling Stones journalist Ben-Fong Torres, master horn player Noel Jewkes, and San Francisco’s premiere modern jazz ensemble - Jazz Mafia.

Anne Sajdera is a multi-dimensional pianist, composer, and arranger who melds American and Brazilian jazz to her training in European classical music. She has performed in many of the Bay Area’s most frequented venues including The California Jazz Conservatory, Herbst Theater, Piedmont Piano Company and SFJAZZ.

Aaron Germain, is a bassist, composer, and bandleader, adept at diverse genres of music, which reflects in his eclectic compositions. He has performed with musicians such as Yusef Lateef, Stanley Jordan, Randy Brecker, Paul McCandless, Nguyen Le, Andy Narell, Michael Wolff, Eric Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Barry Finnerty, Mary Wilson, Paula West, Melba Moore, and Tom Coster among many others. In his most recent album, "Bell Projections," music critic George W. Harris wrote, “Every song is a Givenchy garden of water lilies.”