Professional Cellist and Educator
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Korean-American cellist Sarah Song has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in venues across North America, Europe, and Iceland. As a soloist she has appeared with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Space and the Aaron Copland School of Music Orchestra. She has collaborated with artists like Kronos Quartet, Sæunn Thorsteinsdottir, the Metropolitan Opera, Itamar Zorman, Emannuel Ceysson, and Martha Graham Dance Company.
Song is a founding member of the all-female Ondine Quartet, which received the Ensemble Forward Grant working with Todd Philips and Ayane Kozasa. She performs regularly in venues like Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, The LGBTQ Center, and Flushing Town Hall. Sarah holds degrees from Indiana University, The Eastman School of Music and CUNY Queens College.
She is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at The CUNY Graduate Center with Marcy Rosen. Her research concerns musical hybridity in cello music by diasporic Korean composers. Song lives in Brooklyn where she heads her adult cello studio and teaches at Long Island University BK.
Long Island University, Brooklyn—Adjunct Faculty
Department of Music | 2023-present
· Additional responsibilities: curriculum development, assessment, and coordination of ensemble programming
· Courses taught: Music Theory I–II, Aural Skills I–II, Piano Lab, String Ensemble
Applied Cello Instruction and Studio Teaching
Queens College | 2020-2023
· substitute studio instruction of Marcy Rosen
Eastman School of Music | 2018-2019
· secondary lessons, juries, auditions
· Private Cello Instruction (undergraduate)
· Music Theory I-II
· Aural Skills I–II
· World Music / Music and Cultures
· String Ensemble (new offering)
· Piano Lab I-II
CUNY Graduate Center | Manhattan, NY
Advised by Yayoi Uno Everett
Advanced Performance Certificate in Cello Performance
CUNY Queens College | Flushing, NY
MM in Cello Performance and Literature
Eastman School of Music | Rochester, NY
BM in Cello Performance and Literature
Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music | Bloomington, IN
Graduated magna cum laude 2017
