Cellist Sarah Song prides herself on a multi-faceted career as an international collaborator, educator and scholar.

Dedicated to fostering meaningful collaborations Sarah continues to work with musicians, students and teachers from across the world. Her most recent performances include the inaugural free improvisation concert at the Icelandic festival, VIÐ DJÚPIÐ (2023) with artists Beth McNinch (Ireland), Lillia Keyes (Germany) and Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir (Iceland).

Sarah is a founding member of the Distortion Quartet, an ensemble dedicated to enhancing the conventional  concert experience by way of pre-concert talks focused on informed listening. In 2019, the quartet won The Classical Tahoe International String Quartet Apprenticeship led by Laurie Hamilton and Joel Rezven of the Metropolitan Opera. They have concertized with members of The Met Opera, LA Phil, Cleveland Orchestra, along with soloists like Itamar Zorman and Emannuel Ceysson.  Distortion Quartet is a 2020 semi-finalist at the Coltman Chamber Competition (Austin, TX).

Sarah is the recipient of the Chamber Music Live Award for her musical leadership at Queens College (2021) and served as a quartet fellow at the Madeline Island Music Festival, working closely with members of the Arianna String Quartet, American String Quartet, Shanghai String Quartet, St. Lawrence String Quartet and Brooklyn Rider (2018).

Versatile in her musical collaborations, Sarah has performed with the Aaron Copland School Orchestra as the winner of the 2020 school-wide concerto competition and performed Elgar Cello Concerto with The New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Space (2023). She performs regularly in venues like Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, The LGBTQ Center and Flushing Town Hall.

Alongside her performing career, Sarah is passionate about expanding music education accessibility and has spearheaded cello studios in El-Sistema programs around the US and Mexico. In tuition-free music programs, Sarah can be found teaching, conducting and organizing city-wide workshops for her students of all ages and backgrounds.

In New York City she has taught at The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and regularly workshops students’ original works as a Teaching Artist with The Little Orchestra Society. 

Sarah holds degrees from Indiana University, The Eastman School of Music and CUNY Queens College. She has appeared in masterclasses with teachers like Christoph Richter, Laurence Lesser, Lluis Claret, Hans Jørgen Jensen, Paul Katz, Paul Watkins, Philippe Muller and Astrid Schween. Her teachers include Marcy Rosen, Brandon Vamos and David Ying.

Sarah is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at The CUNY Graduate Center. She is a 2023 bespoken fellow mentored by Gina Izzo and Eunbi Kim. Sarah proudly lives in Brooklyn where she heads her adult cello studio. She is a full-time adjunct faculty at Long Island University Brooklyn.