Dr. Sarah Pizzichemi (DMA, MM, BM) has distinguished herself as a versatile and passionate artist and educator with international performances and masterclasses as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. She is a founding member and violinist of Skyros Quartet, established in 2010, and co-creator of Skyros Quartet’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit: Constellation Creatives. Skyros Quartet has performed extensively across Asia and North America and are passionate teaching artists in the Pacific Northwest region. Sarah is co-artistic director of Chamber Music Guild, a 501(c)(3) chamber music education nonprofit with six programs including the CMG in-school coaching program for which Sarah co-created the curriculum, and The Counterpoint Club podcast. She is co-founder and owner of the music publishing company Evergreen Music Press, which has a mission to broaden string and chamber music education.

Sarah has many private violin students, and maintains the award winning Pizzichemi Violin Studio. Her students regularly perform as soloists with orchestras, attend prestigious music festivals, win and place in competitions, and go on to earn college degrees in music. Sarah was concertmaster of the Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island from 2016 to 2022. She has also acted as co-concertmaster of the Pacific Northwest Conducting Institute from 2017 through 2022. Sarah has also performed with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, Auburn Symphony, Waco Symphony, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, substituted as concertmaster of Seattle Modern Orchestra, and was previously concertmaster of the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra from 2015 to 2019.

Sarah received her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance with honors and her Master of Chamber Music degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Doctor of Musical Arts with an emphasis in String Quartet from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln as part of the graduate quartet-in-residence with Skyros Quartet. She also studied early music at UNL with Dr. Peter Lefferts and Dr. Christopher Marks. Her dissertation, “Virtuoso Violinist Maud Powell: Enduring Champion of American Women in Professional Music,” adds to the research literature of feminist musicology. Her main mentors include the Coleman Violin Studio, Brian Lewis, Sandy Yamamoto and the Miró Quartet, Hyeyung Yoon and the Chiara String Quartet, Jerzy Kaplanek and the Penderecki Quartet, Earl Carlyss, James Dunham, and Sylvia Rosenberg.