A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, Sarah Hadley Yakir studying under Donald Weilerstein and Soovin Kim. While there, she performed in local schools where she offered question-and-answer sessions afterward.
Sarah was invited to attend the 2018 Lake George Music Festival. Every August emerging young professionals and celebrated artists from around the word retreat to Lake George, NY for the LGMF which presents traditional and experimental concerts, open rehearsal, public receptions, informational talks and more! Programs are tantalizingly diverse and span solo, chamber, to large orchestral works. There are fresh interpretations of the classics from Bach to Brahms and Mozart to Mahler; pieces by 20th Century experimentalists such as Xanakis and Reich and premier performances of contemporary works.
Among the highlights from the two-week festival Sarah Hadley Yakir performed in Aaron Copland's TWO PIECES FOR STRING QUARTET, Steven Snowden's TRAVELER NO. 65, THE LIGHT LIST, Amy Beach's PIANO QUINTED in F Sharp Minor, OP 67, and with the Lake George Music Festival Symphony Orchestra's Anton Dvorak's Symphony No.9.
