About Me
Frank Wilkins, pianist, composer-producer, band leader, and educator is known throughout the United States for his soulful, swinging, sensitive approach to the music.An alumnus of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and the Berklee College of Music Frank has as an educator instructed at the Berklee College of Music, Tufts University, Northeastern University, and the New England Institute of Art.Among his many accomplishments, Wilkins is the recipient of the Hank Jones "Jazz Masters" Award while attending the Berklee College of Music, and a recipient of the Composition Grant from the Massachusetts Council of the Arts.For more then two decades Frank has been working with various programs such as "A Journey Into Jazz" and "Eat's & Beats" bringing the music and the history to students grades K - 12. Many adults have benefited from these programs as well.Renowned local, national and international performances, a small sampling include, Tyron Davis, David Ruffin, Angela Bofill, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Semenya Mc Cord, Kevin Eubanks, Mike Stern, Najee, Jon Fadis, Yusef Lateef, Tiger Okoshi, Cecilia Smith, Lavern Baker, and Rebecca Paris. Frank has opened for Ray Charles, Bill Cosby, Gladys Knight, Wynton Marsalis. Al Green, Sly and the Family Stone, Al Jarreau, Pebo Bryson, and Nancy Wilson.
Performances have covered all of the major New England Jazz/R&B clubs, Scullers, the Regatta Bar, Ryles, the"Berklee Performance Center". House of Blues, Newport Jazz Festival, as well as the "Montreux Jazz Festival", North Sea Jazz Festival" and many celebrated performances throughout West Africa, Italy Holland, Switzerland, Germany, and Mexico.Thank you.
We Jazz Up,
Frank Wilkins.
