She is a flautist who earned her B.A. degree in Music at the University of Southern California and has gone on to become an extremely sought after musician on stage and in the studio.
In 1999 she was a musician with the Grammy Awards Orchestra at the 41st Grammy Awards and accompanied Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang in a performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. She has also worked with the orchestras that performed at the American Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards and the Emmy Awards. Outside of her orchestral work she has also performed on many soundtracks and scores for film and television.
She has performed with countless artists and groups that include Anisa Angarola, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Ray Charles, Stanley Clarke, Natalie Cole, Michel Colombier, Color Me Badd, Michael Crawford, Ella Fitzgerald, David Foster, Herbie Hancock, Whitney Houston, Maurice Jarre, Elton John, Hubert Laws, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Madonna, Claus Ogerman, Pasadena Symphony, Jean Pierre Rampal, San Francisco Ballet, Barbra Streisand, Justin Timberlake, Luther Vandross, Grover Washington Jr., John Williams and Stevie Wonder along with numerous others.
She released her own debut recording Today, Tomorrow and Forever in 2002, which won a Grammy nomination, followed by Only Time Will Tell in 2006 and Anytime, Anyplace in 2007.
Recordings she has performed on are many, but a select few include Music of Mauro Giuliani and Pastorale with Anisa Angarola, Classic Love Songs My Way by Paul Anka, Shaken, Not Stirred by David Benoit, Sweet Vibrations by Bobby “Blue” Bland, This Is the Time: The Christmas Album by Michael Bolton, The Promise by Earth, Wind & Fire, No Strings by Sheena Easton, The Christmas Album by David Foster, Blood on the Dance Floor (HIStory in the Mix) by Michael Jackson, Celtic Romance on the Silver Flute with Danilo Lozano and Susan Winsberg, Patrice by Patrice Rushen, A Single Woman by Nina Simone and Beatles on Hammered Dulcimer, Carolan’s Cup, Celtic Dreams and Gifts III (Christmas from Around the World) by Joemy Wilson and many more as well as numerous compilations.
Joemy Wilson recordings
Furry Day Carol/On Christmas Night (Sussex Carol) (Traditional Cornish/possibly Luke Wadding/Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Dargason Music 10108 (CD: Gifts III (Christmas from Around the World))
Hammered Dulcimer – Joemy Wilson
Flute – Valarie King
Sources:
- https://www.instrumentalcasting.com/viewmusiciang.php?serial=257
- https://smoothjazztherapy.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/valarie_king_on.html
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pastorale-Valarie-King/dp/B00008GK91
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455360/
- https://www.allmusic.com/artist/valarie-king-mn0000520771#credits
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/608983-Valarie-King?superFilter=Credits