About

Sarah Rachel Evins is from Las Vegas, Nevada where she attended the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts and studied with university professors Beverly Bias and Matthew Johnson. At the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, she was awarded “Outstanding Senior Orchestra Student” and won the Senior Concerto Competition, playing the Walton Viola Concerto with the Las Vegas Academy Philharmonic. She has played in Carnegie Hall as principal violist for the New York Youth Symphony. In Spring 2011, she premiered Sean Friar’s Hypnic Twitches for String Quartet at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall.

Sarah studied with viola professors Nicholas Cords of Brooklyn Rider and Larry Dutton of the Emerson String Quartet at Stony Brook University. There she earned her BA in viola performance and also studied musicology at the graduate level. In her undergraduate career, she had the honor to perform in the graduate orchestra, the Stony Brook Symphony, and to be coached by the Emerson Quartet and other esteemed graduate faculty. She received the prestigious Undergraduate Quartet and Michael Bane awards and is now a member of the Stony Brook Chamber Ensemble. She has performed at the Emerson Spring Chamber Music Festival three years in a row and performed with Emerson String Quartet violinist Phil Setzer this December alongside other distinguished Stony Brook musicians.

Sarah has also participated in well-established music festivals such as Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute (2009) and Round Top International Music Festival (2012-2014). At Round Top International music festival, she received a full fellowship, performed chamber music with the world-renowned faculty, and won a command performance in the “Best of 2014 Chamber Music" playing Takemitsu’s And Then I Knew ’Twas Wind.

As part of her long-term goals as a musician, Sarah would like to explore creative approaches to performance. Ultimately she hopes to bring classical music to wider audiences.

Music

Solo:
-Bach, J.S; Cello Suites: Suite No. 1 in G Major, Suite No. 2 in D Minor, Suite No. 3 in C Major, Suite No. 4 in Eb Major
-Bowen, Sonata for Viola No. 1 in C minor, Op. 18
-Brahms, Viola Sonata No. 2 in Eb, Op. 120
-Clarke, Sonata for Viola and Piano
-Glazunov, Élegia, Op. 44
-Hindemith, Sonata for Solo Viola Op. 25, No. 1 by Paul Hindemith
-Hoffmeister, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
-Penderecki, Cadenza per solo viola
-Stamitz, Viola Concerto in D Major, Op. 1
-Stravinsky, Elegy for Solo Viola (1944)
-Walton, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra

Chamber:
-Bartok, String Quartet No. 2
-Bartok, String Quartet No. 3
-Beethoven, String Quartet in F Major Op. 18, No. 1
-Beethoven, String Quartet in C Minor Op. 18, No. 4
-Beethoven, String Quartet in F Major, “Razumovsky” Op. 59, No. 1
-Beethoven, String Quartet in Eb Major, “Harp” Op. 74
-Beethoven, String Quartet in F Minor, “Serioso” Op. 95
-Boccherini, Guitar Quintet in D Major, G. 448
-Brahms, String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op 36
-Debussy, String Quartet, Op. 10
-Dvorak, “American” String Quartet Op. 96
-Granados, Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 49
-Hinze, Karl; “The Story of Crisco” (2013, world premiere)
-Mendelssohn, Octet in Eb Major, Op. 20
-Mozart, “Dissonance” String Quartet, K. 465
-Mozart, Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285
-Prokofiev, Overture on Hebrew Themes for Piano Quintet, Op. 34
-Ravel, String Quartet in F Major
-Schubert, String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, “Death and the Maiden” D. 810
-Schubert, Piano Quintet in A Major, “Trout” D. 667
-Schumann, Piano Quartet in in Eb Major, Op. 47
-Sean Friar, “Hypnic Twitches” for String Quartet (2010, world premiere at Carnegie Hall)
-Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 Op. 110
-Takemitsu, “And Then I Knew ‘Twas Wind”

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