Sandi Wilson Email & Phone Number

Sandi Wilson is an internationally recognized and four-time Music Educator Grammy Award© nominee (current quarterfinalist for the 2025 Music Educator Grammy Award as a Legacy Applicant), a TedX speaker, musician, and educator. For more than a decade, this award winning music educator, musician, and clinician has excelled in the field of strings, vocal, and mindfulness music education. Since Wilson began her teaching career fourteen years ago, she has built six different music programs from the ground up in various private, public, and charter schools in North Carolina and Colorado, including her new modern orchestra program based in Asheville at the Franklin School of Innovation which introduces an entirely new approach or ensemble work. Mrs. Wilson has, and continues, to teach everything from K-12 general music, to collegiate level A Cappella groups and semi professional chamber strings groups, to mindfulness practices for musicians. She has founded and directed her own youth orchestras and A Cappella groups throughout North Carolina, which have all performed at professional sporting events such as NBA games, NHL games, and multiple performances at D1 colleges in North Carolina and Colorado. She, as a violinist and vocalist, has performed countless solo performances, weddings, corporate events, lead master classes, and done studio recordings where she has had the privilege of working with various local and mainstream recording artists as a studio musician and a contracted artist. She has also performed with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Pikes Peaks Philharmonic.As an actress and musical director, she has performed/directed 30+shows including collaborating as musical director with playwright Jeff Donnelly on three original musicals they debuted together in North Carolina. Her multicultural music studies took her to study various styles of Latin, African, and Indian dance. She has choreographed multiple dances and taught and performed them alongside multi-lingual music performances with K-12 students for local, state, and international heritage festivals.Wilson has received countless awards and accolades over her career. She is a two-time Music Educator Grammy Award© nominee, she was named one of 2020's "Top 100 Visionaries in Education" from the Global Forum for Education and Learning.