Sarah Sutton ~ Viola
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Ms Sutton has an international profile as both a performer and teacher. As a performer she has brought music to some of the most eminent figures in the history of our time. She has played a command performance for the late Pope John Paul II; was invited to perform at the State Banquet and Celebrations in honor of Nelson Mandella and Queen Elizabeth II, not to mention performances for Diana, Princess of Wales, The Duchess of York and the Duchess of Kent. Her playing has been described by the Saanen Post (Switzerland) as "enthralling", captivating audiences with her "range of emotion and the darkly melancholic timbre of the instrument".
Ms Sutton has performed throughout Europe, North and South America. She has appeared as both soloist and principal violist with the Camerata Lysy Gstaad (Switzerland), and played at many prestigious venues, including the Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Teatro Colon (Buenes Aires), the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Albert Hall and St John's Smith Square (London). Festivals include solo and chamber performaces at the Summer Music Festival at Blackthorpe Barn (UK), the Menuhin Festival, Alpen Gala, and Verbier Summer Academy (Switzerland), and Tanglewood (USA). An avid chamber musician, Ms Sutton has collaborated with the Carmina Quartet as Guest Violist in performances as part of the Rencontres Musicales (Switzerland), and has appeared as a soloist in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, with members of the New World Symphony and Nicholas McGeegan.
As an orchestral player, Ms Sutton has held the Principal Viola position with the New World Symphony (directed by Michael Tilson-Thomas) and was a member of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been a guest Sub-Principal with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (UK), participating in the historic EMI recording of Tristan and Isolde with Antonio Pappano and Placido Domingo, and the new production of Das Rheingold, which has been broadcast live on BBC TV and BBC Radio 3. Sarah has been a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia(formerly the Concerto Soloists) and also appears as Guest Principal Violist with the Princeton Symphony and guest artist with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Born in England, Ms Sutton is a graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music (UK), where she studied with Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Simon Rowland-Jones, Yuko Inoue and Mauricio Fuks. She went on to accept a full scholarship at the International Menuhin Music Academy (Switzerland) where her teachers were Johannes Eskaer and Maestro Alberto Lysy. Ms Sutton went on to study with Alan DeVeritch at Indiana University, where she was his Assistant.
Ms. Sutton resides in the Philadelphia area with her husband, William Wozniak, and son Edward. She plays a beautiful viola by Sergio Peresson (anno 1970) named "The Geist", and a small viola modern viola by J.P. Moisy (anno 2019).
Listen......
Elgar Piano Quintet in A Flat Major, Op. 84 II. Adagio
Frank Bridge ~ Pensiero and Allegro Appassionato
Brahms Piano Quartet in c minor, Op.60 Allegro ma non troppo
Brahms Piano Quartet in c minor Op. 60 Andante
Rhapsody for a Forgotten Soul for Solo Viola - Chason Goldfinger. World Premiere June 2012 Center Stage Strings Music Festival.
Shostakovitch Sonata (last movement) - Historic recording!
Upcoming Performances
2021/22 Season
June 6-12 Port City Music Festival
July 25th Camerata Philadelphia @ Germantown Presbyterian Church 3pm - Beethoven and Mendelssohn
August 18th The Mann Ceneter Festival Orchestra: 8pm ET in Concert
September 14th Camerata Philadelphia 5pm Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Sq. Phila
September 24th, 25th, 26th Philly Pops www.phillypops.org
October 23rd, 24th Camerata Philadelphia www.camerataphiladelphia.org
November 13th & 14th Camerata Philadelphia www.camerataphiladelphia.org
November 17th, 20th & 21st Philly Pops www.phillypops.org
December 3rd - 18th Philly Pops
March 9th - Camerata Philadelphia @Holy Trinity Rittenhouse Square 12:15pm
March 11th -13th Philly Pops
March 17th, 19th Soloist with The Mendelssohn Chorus @SuzanneRoberts Theatre, Phila
March 26th 1pm Camerata Philadelphia @church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square
March 27th 3pm Camerata Philadelphia @Tredyffrin Library, Wayne PA
April 1st-3rd Philly Pops
April 22nd 7pm Camerata Philadelphia/Artcinia St Luke & the Epiphany, Philadelphia
April 23rd 1pm Camerata Philadelphia @ church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square
April 23rd 4pm Camerata Philadelphia @Tredyffrin Library, Wayne
May13th-15th Philly Pops
May 21st 1pm Camerata Philadelphia @Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square
June 5th-12th Port City Music Festival
July 3rd 7pm Pops on Independace, Philly Pops
August 11th 8pm Philly Pops @The Mann
2019/20 Season
Sept. 18th 12:30pm Camerata Philadelphia @ Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Sq. Phila
Sept. 21st 3pm Camerata Philadelphia
Sept. 22nd 3pm Camerata Philadelphia
Sept. 27th 8pm Philly Pops @ Verizon Hall, Phila.
Sept 28th 3pm Philly Pops @Verizon Hall, Phila.
Sept 29th 3pm Philly Pops @ Verizon Hall, Phila.
Oct. 5th 7:30 Philly Pops @ the Trenton War Memorial
Oct. 6th 2:30pm Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Perelmann Theater, Phila.
Oct. 7th 7:30pm Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Perelmann Theater, Phila.
Oct 19th 3pm Camerata Philadelphia
Oct. 23rd 12:30pm Camerata Philadelphia, Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Sq. Phila.
Oct. 24th & 25th Philly Pops @ the MET, Phila.
Oct. 27th 3pm Camerata Philadelphia
Nov. 3rd 2:30pm Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia @ the Perelmann Theater, Phila.
Nov. 9th 3pm Camerata Philadelphia
Nov. 10th 3pm Camerata Philadelphia
Nov. 20th 12:30pm Camerata Philadelphia, Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Sq. Phila.
photos: Geoffrey Glass
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