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| "I am delighted to announce Sarah D’Angelo will be joining Stewart’s Stellar Strings, starting summer 2011, and will be teaching on Saturdays at my studio, starting in September. Sarah and I will be working closely together. Her students will be included in all Stewart’s Stellar Strings activities, and I will be monitoring their development. Sarah will be starting a class of beginners, and is qualified to work with students of all levels. I will continue to teach group class, and coach chamber music." -- Cathy Stewart |
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Violinist, Sarah D'Angelo began her violin studies at the age of three with Jean Soroka in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Being born into a family of musicians, and music lovers, Sarah was additionally encouraged to study piano, voice, and dance from a very early age. Through elementary school, Sarah's violin studies progressed under Ms. Soroka, then Carol Rodland's tutelage, until a family move to Princeton, NJ in middle school, where David Myford became Sarah's principal teacher. In high school, Sarah participated in many regional orchestras including the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and the New Jersey All State Orchestra.
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Through youth orchestra, Sarah experienced tours to Italy, Vienna, and Moscow. It was a summer spent in Lenox, Massachusetts at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, where it became strikingly clear that a musical education was the path Sarah wanted to pursue beyond high school. Sarah earned her BM in violin performance at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where she studied violin with Yon Ku Ahn and Herbert Greenberg, former concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony. Music making during the summers included attendance at festivals such as Le Domaine Forget, the Heifetz International Music Institute, and the National Orchestral Institute. Sarah went on to earn her MM in both Suzuki Pedagogy and violin performance at the University of Maryland under the direction of Suzuki violin pedagogue, Ronda Cole. Since graduating in 2005, Ms. D'Angelo has enjoyed further violin studies with Violaine Melancon of the Peabody Trio, and Elizabeth Adkins, assistant concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra. Sarah has taught Suzuki and traditional violin in schools such as, the Park School of Baltimore, the Norwood School in Bethesda, MD, the Lowell School in Washington D.C., and ChamberSTRINGS music camp outside of Philadelphia, PA. As a freelance performer, Sarah has played with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Concert Opera, the Baltimore Opera, the Cathedral Choral Society, and the Alexandria Symphony, and is a principal player with the Inscape* Chamber Music Project. Playing with Inscape* has led to many exciting collaborations, world premieres, and concerts at beautiful venues including the National Gallery of Art, the Washington Arts Club, the Mansion at Strathmore, and the Kennedy Center. Most recently, the Washington Post described Sarah's playing of the final movement of Oliver Messiaen's, Quartet For the End of Time as, "a limpid, sweet melodic line, curving around endless detours in a floating calmness." |
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