Currently the third horn in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and the hornist in the Back Bay Brass quintet, she has performed and recorded with many ensembles, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Canadian Opera Company, Atlanta Symphony, and was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow for two summers. She performed on two Grammy-nominated recordings: the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11, which won Best Orchestral Performance of 2018, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s recording of The Lord of the Cries, which was nominated for Best Opera Recording of 2023.

Born and raised in upstate New York, Sarah began her musical studies at the age of four with the violin and at eight with the horn, adding the viola, trumpet, and steel pans during high school. She was the first student ever selected to attend Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute on two unrelated instruments (horn and violin) in 2004. Sarah moved to Rochester, NY, to study with W. Peter Kurau at the Eastman School of Music; while there, she also studied horn with Jacek Muzyk and natural horn with Derek Conrad, and completed degrees in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Rochester. After the completion of her Bachelor’s degree, Sarah moved to Boston to pursue her Master’s of Music degree and Graduate Diploma from New England Conservatory, where she studied with Jason Snider and James Sommerville. Sarah currently teaches at New England Conservatory Prep School, Wellesley Public Schools, Powers School of Music, Dana Hall School, and coaches with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (BYSO).