Biography Sara DeCorso

Sara DeCorso began her musical studies in her hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska with Dr. Kathleen Butler-Hopkins. She received her Bachelor's degree from the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio as a student of Marilyn McDonald, and completed her Master's and Doctoral degrees at Stony Brook University in New York under the tutelage of Mitchell Stern. She received fellowships from Round Top Festival and Tanglewood Music Center, and in 2002 was awarded a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund of Boston to pursue baroque violin studies with Enrico Gatti at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag.
She has also worked with such early music specialists as Arthur Haas, Manfred Kraemer, and Phoebe Carrai.

Sara has performed with a variety of American and European period instrument ensembles, including Les Musiciens du Louvre (dir. Marc Minkowski), Musica ad Rhenum (dir. Jed Wentz), Anima Eterna (dir. Jos van Immerseel), New York Collegium (dir. Andrew Parrott), the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra (dir. Kenneth Slowik), Harmonie Universelle (dir. Florian Deuter), The New Dutch Academy (dir. Simon Murphy), and B'Rock.

Sara currently lives in Amsterdam, where she is active as recitalist as well as chamber and orchestral musician.