Sarah Tiedemann

Sarah Tiedemann, an accomplished flutist hailed for her rich tone and fierce command of the instrument, has appeared as a chamber musician, orchestral performer, and soloist throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. Currenty serving as Principal Flute of the Salem Chamber Orchestra and the Portland Festival Symphony, and Second Flute in the Portland Columbia Symphony, she has also played locally with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Vancouver Symphony, and Portland Chamber Orchestra. In addition, Sarah has performed throughout the United States and Europe in groups including the Swedish Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Norrkoping Symphony, and Boston Philharmonic. She frequently serves as a clinician and adjudicator throughout Oregon and maintains private studios in Salem, Hillsboro, and Portland.

In 2004 Sarah's world premiere performance of Derek Jacoby's Flute Concerto was broadcast internationally on WGBH's Art of the States. The following year she was featured as piccoloist in the Swedish Radio Symphony's live European broadcast of Luciano Berio's Folk Songs, and in Winter 2010 she will premiere a concerto for flute and chamber orchestra writen by composer John Levey, Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

Also passionate about performance art, Sarah has appeared in fully staged performances of Peter Maxwell Davies' Miss Donnithorne's Maggot and George Crumb's Vox Balaenae. She has premiered further works by composers including Gunther Schuller, Montserrat Torras, Stratis Minakakis, and Dan VanHassell.

Sarah received a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from Oberlin Conservatory, followed by a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from New England Conservatory. In 2003, she was the recipient of the prestigious Javits Fellowship in Performance from the U.S. Department of Education, and later pursued postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden funded by a Thord Gray Memorial Fund fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and a travel grant from the American Women's Club of Sweden. Her teachers have included Michel Debost, Jeanne Baxtresser, Tobias Carron, and John Heiss.

Upon returning to Oregon in 2005, Sarah ventured into acting with a starring role as angtsy 20-something Quinn Sullivan in Wiley Films' Temporary Insanity, which was filmed locally and is currently in post-production. She has studied voice with Grammy-nominated artist Valerie Day and can be heard performing vocals on the Temporary Insanity soundtrack, as well as vocals and rock flute on Portland band Sarahtonin's debut CD Wayward. In her spare time, Sarah also enjoys writing, cooking, hiking, and distance running. More information is available on her website, www.sarahtiedemann.com.

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