Staff

Sarah Tiedemann currently serves as the Artistic Director of Third Angle New Music and as a member of the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra. She has performed across North America, Europe, and Australia with groups including the Oregon Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and at festivals including Chamber Music Northwest, the Britt Festival, the Astoria Music Festival, and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice.

Sarah specializes in interpreting contemporary works and has appeared with Third Angle New Music, Northwest New Music, Cascadia Composers, and Boston’s Callithumpian Consort. She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the New England Conservatory and pursued postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. Sarah has received national and international awards and fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the American Women’s Club of Sweden.

Also a skilled administrator, she previously served as Executive Director of Young Musicians & Artists (YMA), Communications Coordinator at Third Angle, and Marketing Director at Chamber Music Northwest. She is currently a faculty member at Lewis & Clark College and Portland State University.

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Evan Lewis is thrilled to step into the role of Executive Director with Third Angle New Music.  Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, he has a background in arts administration and fundraising, having worked across the country for organizations including REDCAT, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Merkin Concert Hall. 

In a full circle moment, Evan has worked at Third Angle before as the Communications Coordinator and is very excited to return to the organization. Evan received his Masters in Music in composition from Mannes College, The New School in 2008, where he studied with David Tcimpidis, Paul Moravec, and Jennifer Higdon. He was a winner of the Jean Schneider Goberman/Alaria Competition, and had his orchestral work Alecto premiered at the 2008 Contemporary Music Festival by the Mannes Orchestra under the baton of guest conductor Michael Adelson. He completed the Film Scoring Certificate program at UCLA in 2009, where he studied film composition. His lifelong love of music started with the piano and the euphonium, but discovered composing at Whitman College, where he received a BA in music.

In his spare time, he enjoys running, watching movies, and spending time with his wife and son in a funky 1970s house in the suburbs.

Will Pyle is an artist and artistic administrator driven by a love of connecting people with music, art, and the world around them. Will works at Third Angle to connect the organization with the Portland community, highlight Third Angle’s distinctively adventurous programming, and help create inclusive spaces for people to experience new music.

As a saxophonist, Will is a founding member in the Aruna Quartet which has garnered national and international acclaim, winning awards at numerous competitions including the Grand Prize of the 46th Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Will holds performance degrees from Texas Tech University (B.M) and the Eastman School of Music (M.M), and in 2023, Will was selected as a fellow for the Bang on a Can Summer Institute at MASS MoCA.

As an arts administrator, Will serves as Executive Director of the Aruna Quartet’s non-profit organization and continues to take a lead role in managing commissions, fundraising, and community outreach efforts. Additionally, he has worked for acclaimed new music chamber ensembles loadbang and fivebyfive.

Outside of his musical and administrative life, Will enjoys shooting 35mm film and playing with his two dogs.

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Lori Trephibio joined the Third Angle New Music team with 10 years’ experience coordinating, liaising and arranging physical and logistical elements of live events to curate euphoric atmospheres for people.

She graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. She spent the past decade exploring the vast realm of live events through different platforms like concerts, theater, conferences, dance and festivals. Some of her favorite roles in live events were as a stagehand at Concord Music Hall, stage managing the Oregon Symphony, production coordinating Arc Music Festival and working for Kobotech, Inc in Chicago.

Depending on the time of the year, you may find her in Portland working with Third Angle New Music, or in Chicago either stage managing the Grant Park Music Festival or attending Riot Fest.

Board of Directors

Michael Reed, Interim Chair
Founding Partner Emeritus, Mayer/Reed

Alex Van Rysselberghe, Interim Vice Chair
Associate, Stoel Rives

Linda Woody, Secretary
Composer

Ted Clifford
Composer

Valdine Ritchie Mishkin
Cellist, Adjunct Faculty, Reed College

Ross Seligman
Principal Broker, Living Room Realty

Elaine Vote
Narrative, Thought Leadership & Speakers Bureau, Intel Corporation

Sarah Tiedemann
Artistic Director, Third Angle New Music,
Ex-Officio Member

Evan Lewis
Executive Director, Third Angle New Music,
Ex-Officio Member