Performance

Sarah has a vast range of performance experience from solo recitals at the Royal Academy of Music to playing with the European Union Youth Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy and Bernard Heitink.

Solo (including)

Early evening recital at the Royal Academy of Music: March 2003
Lunchtime concert at the Royal Academy of Music: Feb 2003
Recital at Knebworth Hall: March 2002
Recital at St Anne’s Church, Dublin: Feb 2000
Solo performance at St Michael’s Church, Macclesfield: Jan 2000
Solo performances at the Royal Northern College of Music: 1996- 2000
Recitals at Fallibroome High School: 1993- 2000
Soloist in concertos with Fallibroome String Ensemble on tours to Spain and Italy: 1998 and 1999

Chamber Ensembles

Contemporary Music and Composition Course as part of the Britten Pears Young Artists Programme: July 2003
The ‘RAM Chamber Ensemble’ concert, ‘Betjeman’s Banana Blush’. A series of short poems by Sir John Betjeman, set to music by TV composer Jim Parker: Nov 2003
‘Hetherington Quartet’ and ‘Hetherington Flute Quartet’ Concerts at the Royal Academy of Music, and recitals at various venues around the UK: 2000- present
Sessions for the Media and Applied Music department at the Royal Academy of Music: 2000- present
Recording sessions for jazz musicians such as Clark Tracey: 2000- present
Performance of Benjamin Dale Sextet and Haydn String Quartet in D, op 20, no 4 as part of the Lional Tertis Viola Festival: Nov 2001
Performance and masterclasses with the ‘Hetherington String Quartet’ at the Royal Northern College of Music for a chamber music convention: May 2000
‘Bollin Trio’ recitals in north west England: 1998-2000
Concerts and masterclasses at the RNCM Junior School with the ‘JS String Quartet’, including performance for the HaydnFest: 1998
Concerts and masterclasses at the Lake District Summer Music Course: 1998 and 1999
The Yehudi Menuhin International String Course, Portsmouth: March 1999

Orchestral

RAM Symphony, Concert and Sinfonia Orchestras, under such conductors as Yan Pascal Tortelier and Sir Colin Davies: 2000- present
European Union Youth Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy and Bernard Heitink: 2002-present
Modern Instrument Baroque Orchestra, Principal Viola under Micaela Comberti: 2002- 2003
Gala Concert with Sir Elton John at the Royal Opera House: Dec 2002
National Musicians Symphony Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall: Oct 2002
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Summer Season 2002
RAM Opera Orchestra; Verdi ‘Falstaff’ under Ian Leddington: June 2002
Royal Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, RFH: 2001
RAM String Orchestra, Principal Viola, various dates and programs: 2000
Cheshire Youth Orchestra, touring South Africa: 1998

Masterclasses

Royal Academy of Music, 2000- present
Solo: Paul Silverthorne, Yuko Inoue, Jersey Kosmala, Harmut Rohde, Jim Sleigh
Accompaniment: John Streets

Royal Northern College of Music: 1996- 2000
Chamber Music: Sorrel Quartet, Penny Stirling

Lake District Summer Music: summer 1998 and 1999
Chamber Music: Chillingerian Quartet
Solo: Simon Rowland Jones

Coaching

Royal Academy of Music: 2000- present
Chamber music: Clare Southworth, Howard Davies, Siegmund Nissel, Matthew Souter

Royal Northern College of Music: 1996-2000
Chamber music: Malcolm Layfield, Christopher Rowland