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Sarah Kapps
Cellist Sarah Kapps has an active and diverse career that has taken her across North America, through Europe and into the Middle East. First Prize winner of the 2002 Donna Turner Smith competition, she is not only a performer of classical music. She has also taken part in experimental, rock, and improvisatory performances that have featured her in an eclectic variety of venues. Soloist, chamber musician and orchestral member, she has also been a member of the Roanoke Symphony, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and The Fort Smith Symphony, where she has also been a returning soloist. She was a founding member of the Denali String Quartet with whom she has traveled internationally and has been a member many chamber ensembles including Ouluska Pass, Non Sequitor, and the Absolute Ensemble, based in New York City. Highlights also include performances with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Joni Mitchell, and Johnny Mathis.
A Native Philadelphian, Ms. Kapps was most recently living in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, and taught at The University of Texas Pan-American for six years. In summers, she is a member of the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra in Virginia, where she also teaches at the Wintergreen Summer Music Academy. She has also taught at Oklahoma Baptist University, the Pan-American Music Festival and at St. Joseph’s University. In her various positions as a cello instructor, she has also been able to make arts advocacy an important part of her educating endeavors. Since 2004, she has successfully tricked more than one thousand college students into enjoying Mozart Operas!
Sarah Kapps holds degrees from The Manhattan School of Music and The Mannes College of Music, and has studied with Paul Tobias and Peter Wiley of the Guarneri Quartet. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, pianist, Peter Marshall.