Accordionist Murl Allen Sanders will be a featured performer at the 2022 ATG Festival in Lisle, Chicago. Murl will present his workshop “Being the Accordionist in an Ensemble” on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 3:PM at the Hyatt Hotel. He will perform at the Evening Concert on Thursday, July 21,2022 at Wheaton College.

Murl Allen Sanders is a musician, composer, teacher and recording artist living in Seattle. Excerpts from ATG website: Murl has worked in the USA, Canada, England, Brazil and Japan with such diverse artists as Chuck Berry, Etta James, Il Divo, Glenn Yarbrough, Seattle Symphony, accordion virtuosi Frank Marocco, Chico Chagas, Stas Venglevski, Alex Meixner, Gary Blair and Cory Pesaturo, Leroy Bell, Peter Duchin, Alarm Will Sound, Seattle Modern Orchestra, Cascade Symphony, Everett Philarmonic, Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers, The Von Trapp Children, Theodore Bikel, Leslie Gore, Barbara Lamb, Susan Pascal, Warren Rand, Pearl Django, Michael Tomlinson and Kelly Harland, among many others.

Murl teaches piano and accordion privately and is also adjunct faculty at Cornish College of the Arts and Shoreline College in Seattle. He has received two grants from The Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs to compose “She Blows Hot and Cold” for chorus and symphony orchestra in 2010 and “Accordion Concerto #2” in 2007, both pieces performed by Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers. His “Accordion Concerto #1”, a commission from Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers, premiered in 2003. Murl received a 2010 and 2009 ASCAP plus award for his concert compositions from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Recent appearances:
Bellevue Jazz and Blues Festival 2021, 2022
LeRoy Bell 2020
SanFrancisco Accordion Club 2019
Seattle Symphony “Music Beyond Borders” Concert 2017
Deep Squeeze Accordion Festival 2019, Port Townsend, WA
Leavenworth International Accordion Festival 2018
Accordionists and Teachers Guild Festival, Chicago 2018
International Festival Da Sanfona, Juazeiro, Brazil 2016
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil with Chico Chagas
Earshot Jazz Festival
Milwaukee Accordion Club & Chicago Accordion Club
Alarm Will Sound
Seattle Modern Orchestra
Northwest Film Forum

Murl’s discography:
“Guides and Spirits” 1981, “Soon” 1991, “New Romance and Doing All Right” 1996 “Can You Dance To It?” 2000, “Accordion Concerto #1” 2003
“Murl’s Holiday Favorites” 2009, “Stories of Lucile” 2012