Violinist Sarah Wood is a regular substitute musician with the San Francisco Symphony. She is a frequent recitalist, avid chamber musician, and orchestral leader.
Sarah has appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco Civic Symphony, the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, the Villa Sinfonia, Panache & Icicle Creek Chamber Orchestras. Internationally, she has performed as a chamber musician in the Netherlands, Tunisia, and Chile on Easter Island. From 2013-2016 she served as a founding member of the Circadian String Quartet, a Bay Area group known for innovative programming. She also holds tenured positions as Assistant Principal Second of the Berkeley Symphony and as a member of the California Symphony.
A dedicated educator, Sarah has taught violin, viola & chamber music for more than 20 years. From 2015-2017 she was a faculty member at the Crowden School, and from 2009-2012 she served as Lina Bahn’s Teaching Assistant at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a certified Suzuki Method teacher, having completed her training with William Starr, and has studied the pedagogies of Paul Rolland and Kato Havas. She also has extensive training in the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping .
Sarah earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in violin performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she studied with Károly Schranz of the Takács String Quartet, Lina Bahn & Andrés Cardenés. Her thesis work focused on designing ergonomic violin equipment in collaboration with Violinist in Balance at HKU Utrechts Conservatorium in the Netherlands. She has since led workshops on the ergonomics of chin rests, most notably at the 2013 European String Teacher's Association International Conference in Oxford, U.K. and in 2018 at the Frost School of Music in Miami, Florida.
Sarah holds a B.M. and M.M. in violin performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she was a student of Paul Kantor and William Preucil. A California native, she formerly studied with Zaven Melikian, Robin Sharp, and Nancy Ewing.
Updated: 12/16/2020
Copyright © 2016 by Sarah Wood. Do not copy or reproduce without permission.
Sarah has appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco Civic Symphony, the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, the Villa Sinfonia, Panache & Icicle Creek Chamber Orchestras. Internationally, she has performed as a chamber musician in the Netherlands, Tunisia, and Chile on Easter Island. From 2013-2016 she served as a founding member of the Circadian String Quartet, a Bay Area group known for innovative programming. She also holds tenured positions as Assistant Principal Second of the Berkeley Symphony and as a member of the California Symphony.
A dedicated educator, Sarah has taught violin, viola & chamber music for more than 20 years. From 2015-2017 she was a faculty member at the Crowden School, and from 2009-2012 she served as Lina Bahn’s Teaching Assistant at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a certified Suzuki Method teacher, having completed her training with William Starr, and has studied the pedagogies of Paul Rolland and Kato Havas. She also has extensive training in the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping .
Sarah earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in violin performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she studied with Károly Schranz of the Takács String Quartet, Lina Bahn & Andrés Cardenés. Her thesis work focused on designing ergonomic violin equipment in collaboration with Violinist in Balance at HKU Utrechts Conservatorium in the Netherlands. She has since led workshops on the ergonomics of chin rests, most notably at the 2013 European String Teacher's Association International Conference in Oxford, U.K. and in 2018 at the Frost School of Music in Miami, Florida.
Sarah holds a B.M. and M.M. in violin performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she was a student of Paul Kantor and William Preucil. A California native, she formerly studied with Zaven Melikian, Robin Sharp, and Nancy Ewing.
Updated: 12/16/2020
Copyright © 2016 by Sarah Wood. Do not copy or reproduce without permission.