Sarah Tiedemann | flute

Sarah Tiedemann currently serves as Artistic Director and flutist of Third Angle New Music and Second Flute/Piccolo of the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra. She has performed across North America, Europe, Australia, and China with groups including the Swedish Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Norrköping Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Boise Philharmonic, and at festivals including Chamber Music Northwest, the Britt Festival, the Astoria Music Festival, and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP).

A contemporary music specialist, Sarah has appeared with Third Angle, Cascadia Composers, Northwest New Music, and Boston’s Callithumpian Consort. Her world premiere performance of Derek Jacoby’s Flute Concerto was broadcast internationally on WGBH’s Art of the States. She was recently featured on Third Angle’s album Alone, Dancing: Music of South Asian-American Composers. In 2021 she joined forces with violist Wendy Richman and harpist Sophie Baird-Daniel to form the trio Three Musicians Tonal Landscaping, performing works of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Also a skilled arts administrator, she previously served as Executive Director of Young Musicians & Artists (YMA) summer arts camp and as Marketing Director at Chamber Music Northwest. She is a faculty member at Lewis & Clark College and Portland State University and previously taught at the International Youth Music Camp in Chengdu, China (2018) and taught at Willamette University (2008-2015).

Ms. Tiedemann graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music degree with Honors in Performance and Academics from the New England Conservatory. A national winner of the U.S. Department of Education’s Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Performance, she went on to pursue postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, funded by a generous award from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Her past teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser, Michel Debost, John Heiss, Karen Gifford, and Tobias Carron.

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