Violinist Sarah Wood is a regular substitute musician with the San Francisco Symphony. She is a founding member of the Circadian String Quartet, a Bay Area group known for its innovative programming, a frequent recitalist, and holds tenured positions as Assistant Principal Second of the Berkeley Symphony and acting Assistant Concertmaster of the California Symphony.
Sarah has appeared as 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.
A dedicated educator, Sarah has taught violin, viola & chamber music for 20 years. Currently she maintains a private studio in the East Bay and teaches chamber music every summer at the Zephyr Point Chamber Music Retreat in Lake Tahoe. From 2014-2016 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, 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 Karoly Schranz of the Takacs 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 also formerly studied with Zaven Melikian, Robin Sharp, and Nancy Hill.
Updated: 9/16/2019
Copyright © 2016 by Sarah Wood. Do not copy or reproduce without permission.
Sarah has appeared as 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.
A dedicated educator, Sarah has taught violin, viola & chamber music for 20 years. Currently she maintains a private studio in the East Bay and teaches chamber music every summer at the Zephyr Point Chamber Music Retreat in Lake Tahoe. From 2014-2016 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, 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 Karoly Schranz of the Takacs 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 also formerly studied with Zaven Melikian, Robin Sharp, and Nancy Hill.
Updated: 9/16/2019
Copyright © 2016 by Sarah Wood. Do not copy or reproduce without permission.
