Bio

Described as “a tireless force of musical curiosity, skill, and enthusiasm” and “the one to up the ante” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Sarah Darling enjoys a varied musical career that moves across centuries and styles on viola and baroque violin, with deep roots in Boston. A member of A Far Cry, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Boston Baroque, Les Bostonades, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Gut Reaction, Emmanuel Music, and Antico Moderno, Sarah also performs with the Handel and Haydn Society, Newton Baroque, Sarasa, and Three Notch’d Road, and spends her summers at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Portland Bach Experience, and the Carmel Bach Festival. Sarah studied at Harvard, Juilliard, Amsterdam, Freiburg, and New England Conservatory, working with James Dunham, Karen Tuttle, Wolfram Christ, Nobuko Imai, and Kim Kashkashian. She has recorded old and new music for Linn, Paladino, Azica, MSR, and Centaur, plus a solo album on Naxos and two Grammy-nominated CDs on Crier Records. Sarah is active as a teacher and coach, relishing the opportunity to “translate” between different musical worlds while serving on the faculty of the Longy School and as co-director of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra.

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