Praised for her sophisticated sense for sound, Canadian violinist Sarah Yang has performed across Canada and Europe as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician, and through her artistry she strives to be a messenger of relentless hope in our chaotic world.
Sarah has performed as soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at age seventeen and later also as soloist with her university orchestra in 2022. At the age of twenty, she was recognized as one of CBC’s “30 Hot Classical Musicians Under 30,” and has held concertmaster positions in all her university orchestras, as well as at the Casalmaggiore International Festival and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and principal second violinist of Camerata Novoe Terrae. She is currently an academist with the Deutsche Kammerakademie in Neuss am Rhein.
As a passionate and dedicated chamber musician, Sarah has played an extensive range of chamber repertoire and has performed with renowned musicians such as Annette von Hehn, Tony Nys, Florence Millet, Alexander Gebert, Daniel Blumenthal, Ariadne Daskalakis, Werner Dickel, Scott St. John, Brian Manker and Steven Dann. She has performed at festivals such as the Thy Chamber Music Festival, Toronto Summer Music Festival, Casalmaggiore International Festival, and the Pablo Casals Festival, and was the violinist of Trio Animato. Beyond classical performance, Sarah enjoys improvisation—both solo and in ensemble—as well as exploring ways of bringing music and improvisation into unconventional contexts. She is frequently involved in various projects with an organization called crescendo as well as her own initiatives.
Sarah will soon begin studying for Konzertexamen (concert studies) at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg under Prof. Sebastian Hamann. Previously, she completed her Master’s degree in solo violin at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne under Michael Foyle and her Bachelor's with Carolin Widmann at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig. In Vancouver, she studied under Taras Gabora and Lucia Schipperus. She has attended masterclasses with world-class musicians, such as Mihaela Martin, Heime Müller, Boris Kusnezow, Ulf Wallin, Ingolf Turban, Norman Fischer and Martin Chalifour.
Sarah plays on a violin made by W.F. Porter in 1942 in Vancouver, Canada.