Sarah is a member of Friends of Jazz with Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Film Forum, and the Jazz Gallery:
Natural Born Artist
Sarah’s artistic life began at the age of four when she taught herself how to play the piano. The first two songs she played in her life were El Cóndor Pasa by Simon & Garfunkel and Annie’s Song by John Denver. At the age of ten, Sarah performed Annie’s Song on recorder at an audition to qualify for music lessons in the Australian school system. Through this audition, Sarah was given the violin to learn, and through love for music, this instrument would become the center of her life with her own singing voice.
At around the age of twelve Sarah’s family purchased a German violin that is the same age as her, that would mature in sound over the years and grow with Sarah throughout her own life. It is this violin that Sarah uses to compose and perform with to this very day, alongside her vocal and keyboard work.
It was also around this time, that Sarah had a natural flare for acting, and her first role around the age of ten was playing a lead character of the opposite gender, the Man from Ironbark, in a play adaptation of the poem, the Man from Ironbark, by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. Sarah, later in her life in 2024 found a strong connection between her identity as an artist and the original Stella Adler technique of acting.
Classically Trained
From the age of ten to seventeen, Sarah’s life was dedicated to music, where she spent many hours every day in classical training and practice, with the Australian Music Examination Board, and String Orchestras. It was during this time Sarah developed a deep passion for the romantic period of classical music that to her ear at this time was the most imaginative. This encompassed the soul driven performances of violinists Ida Haendel and Jascha Heifetz.
Pure Elements of the Arts
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one Sarah was focused on the medical sciences, which required so much of her dedication that it would be the only time in her life when she did not turn to music, even periodically. However, this time would significantly change her life, as it was the medical sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia and working at her family’s surgery, which gave Sarah her work discipline and analytical skills in pure elements of the world. These pure elements encompass the arts as it does science.
Music Genre Blending
From the age of twenty-two, Sarah was immersed in complex law and would play music and sing periodically with the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra Australia, Artes Christi Australia, Our Lady of Lebanon Choir Australia, the Doctors Orchestral Society of New York, St Mary’s Cathedral Choir Australia, Blessed Sacrament Choir New York City, St Michaels Church Choir New York City, and the New South Wales Bar Choir.
From 2010 to 2013, Sarah was highly influenced by the broad range of music repertoire by the rock band Queen and opera singer Montserrat Caballe. This music introduced her to the wide effects of Music Genre Blending, the emotional impact of music through opera, and the characteristic of being natural and genuine in life.
American Music and Harmony
Sarah in 2016 founded the former Australian Lawyers Orchestra, that united musicians across the broad spectrum of the Australian legal profession. Later Sarah improvised with harmony in modern hymns at St Agathas Pennant Hills Australia. During this time, Sarah developed a deep passion for the music of Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and George Gershwin; as well as the artistic works of Edward Hopper whose realism lay a foundation of the unique sounds of these composers and artists across the American landscape. Sarah’s love for these American artists began very naturally; well before she landed on the shores of the United States years ago.
Transition to Jazz, Folk, Pop, Soft Rock, Rock, and Country Music
From 2018 to the present the culture of Manhattan, New York City, has slowly reignited the flame in Sarah of her natural love for music that she had from the very beginning of her life. It has been reignited so brightly that she can no longer turn away from it. The law office has made way for a music studio, where her current focus in 2025 has transitioned to jazz, folk, pop, soft rock, rock, and country music. Sarah’s current work is influenced by artists that have shaped her surroundings – Chet Baker, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Leonard Cohen, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, and Chris Isaak.
Sarah is currently working on her first album, which will include her violin version of ‘Blue in Green (Take 3)’ composed by Miles Davis and Bill Evans, the jazz standard ‘There Will Never Be Another You’ originally composed by Harry Warren that she will improvise on violin and sing, her violin version of the jazz standard ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is’ where Sarah is emphasizing on harmony, originally composed by Don Raye and Gene DePaul; and she will be singing and playing keyboard/piano her version of the jazz standard ‘All of Me’ originally composed by Seymour Simons and Gerald Marks.
Even though it is not her main art form, Sarah was a finalist in the New York 2025 Art Expo Digital Photo Contest. She was delighted to receive this award in early 2025, at a time when she was immersed in complex law. Moving forward, Sarah is excited to dedicate more of her life towards the global arts.
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