Jazz saxophonist Kirsten Edkins brings her band to the Harker Concert Series on Sept. 5. Edkins has been a glowing fixture of the Los Angeles music scene for the past decade and a half and has been a member of several Grammy Award-winning bands.

The Harker School is a non-profit, private K-12 school in Silicon Valley that has earned international recognition for its top academics, quality teachers and students' achievements. Founded in 1893, Harker is the largest independent school of its kind in California, with a dedicated campus for each of its divisions – elementary school, middle school and upper school – in San Jose, Calif.