Sarah Beaty

Biography

Born and raised in the North East of England, clarinettist Sarah Beaty studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Juilliard School in New York. While in New York, Sarah appeared as a recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist at Carnegie Hall. Sarah has also given recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, in which she performed as a winner of the Royal Overseas League Competition. In 2009, Sarah began a two-year fellowship with Carnegie Hall, during which time she performed regularly at Carnegie Hall and taught in inner-city New York State schools. Sarah has participated at the Marlboro Music Festival, Prussia Cove’s Open Chamber Music, Italy’s Spoleto Festival and the Lucerne Festival. Sarah collaborates regularly with string quartets and chamber ensembles and has had the privilege of performing with artists such as Mitsuko Uchida, Radovan Vlatković, and Peter Wiley. Sarah is a founding member of Decoda, who are the affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall and Resident Ensemble in Creative Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Sarah has been generously supported by a number of UK music foundations including the Hattori Foundation, the Worshipful Company of Musicians, Musicians Benevolent Fund, Martin Musical Fund and the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe.