Sarah Goldfeather

composer
Written By Beth Beauchamp

Sarah Goldfeather is a composer-performer who lives in Jersey City whose compositions include commissions from pianist Timo Andres, ETHEL quartet, Contemporaneous, and several works for her ensembles, Exceptet and Cipher. Future projects include works for Warp Trio and Alkemie. She received a 2023 Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was a panelist for the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

Sarah collaborates with Mike Tierney in their experimental pop band, Goldfeather, which was recently featured on New Sounds with John Schafer (WQXR). In addition, Sarah is the co-founder and artistic director of the new music ensemble Exceptet.

Sarah also has an active career as a violinist and singer: she held the violin chair in both the Tony Award-winning and Grammy-nominated Broadway production of Oklahoma! and the off-Broadway production of The Coast Starlight at Lincoln Center Theater, has been a featured performer at The NYU International Conference of the Arts in Berlin, the AMEE Festival in Madrid and Valencia, TEDxMET at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The WildShore Festival, The Present Music Festival, The Johnstone Fund for New Music, and more. 

Sarah is also a teaching artist for Musicambia, a music education program that works with incarcerated populations. Beyond her music career, Sarah moonlights as an English Professor in the Writing Program at Rutgers University-Newark.

Beth Beauchamp

Having worked as a professional musician, a music-educator, and the Executive Director of a number of non-profit arts organizations, Beth has over 10 years of experience in catering to the unique needs of artists. Beth believes that the talent, education, and skill-sets of her clients have inherent worth. As a passionate artist advocate, she aims to help her artists improve the quality of their own lives by encouraging them to honor the value of their own work, and by creating materials which allow them to champion their art with confidence. Equally interested in building community, Beth aims to create a roster of artists who are excited to support and collaborate together. 

http://www.beauchampartistservices.com
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