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An accomplished flutist hailed for her rich tone and
fierce command of the instrument, Sarah Tiedemann has
carved out a unique and varied career as a performing
artist. 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.
A faculty member at Willamette
University, she frequently serves as a clinician
and adjudicator throughout Oregon and maintains private
studios in Portland, Salem, and Hillsboro. |
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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 written by composer John Levey.
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 2002 she was the recipient
of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Performance from
the U.S. Department of Education, and she then went
on to pursue postgraduate studies at the Royal College
of Music in Stockholm, Sweden on a 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, John
Heiss, Tobias Carron and Karen Gifford. |
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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, 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, having completed half-marathons
as well as the Hood to Coast Relay.
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