Sarah Arnold
About
Sarah Arnold holds performance degrees from Rice University Shepherd School of Music and Yale University. She began studying the violin at the age of four, and gave her debut performance at the age of eight as soloist with the Akron Symphony. She has appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony, and the Southeastern Ohio Symphony Orchestra. Sarah served as concertmaster under Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Music Festival in 2012 and toured to Oman with the Castleton Festival Orchestra performing “La Boheme.” Sarah has studied with Marilyn McDonald, Paul Kantor, Kathleen Winkler, and Ani Kavafian.
Sarah is also an avid chamber musician and has played in a piano quintet with Lincoln Center Stage in partnership with Holland America cruise line since 2016. With her quintet she has toured extensively throughout Alaska and throughout the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas. She plays a 2002 violin by American maker Charles Rufino under generous loan from the Maestro Foundation.
Sarah is a very energetic and encouraging teacher. She expects the best out of her students, but first and foremost wants a student to be happy and walk out of a lesson feeling enthusiastic about the violin. Sarah puts a lot of emphasis on building technique and understanding of rhythm and style into her lessons.
Master of Music from the Yale School of Music
Bachelor of Music from Rice University
taught violin and piano at the Vivaldi Music School in Houston, TX (2013-2014)
taught violin at the Morse Yale Summer Music Academy for children (2015)
Generally uses Suzuki method, but also likes to branch out into different books depending on the style of violin the student is looking to learn.