Violist Sarah Sutton’s playing has been described by the Saanen Post as “enthralling”, captivating audiences with her “range of emotion and the darkly melancholic timbre of the instrument”.

Ms. Sutton has performed throughout Europe, North and South America. She has appeared as both soloist and principal violist with the Camerata Lysy Gstaad. Festivals include solo and chamber music performances at the Summer Music Festival at Blackthorpe Barn, England, the Menuhin Festival and AlpenGala in Gstaad, Switzerland, the Verbier Summer Academy, Switzerland, and Tanglewood, in the U.S. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with the Carmina Quartet as guest violist, and with members of the New World Symphony and Nicholas McGeegan. She has been a guest artist in the Leopold Mozart Chamber Music Series.

As an orchestral player, Ms Sutton has held the Principal Viola position with the New World Symphony, and was a member of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been a Guest Sub Principal Viola with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; participating in the historic EMI recording of Tristan and Isolde with Antonio Pappano and Placido Domingo, and the new production of Das Rheingold. Ms. Sutton is currently a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and is also a guest musician with The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Born in England, Ms. Sutton is a graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music, London, where she studied with Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Simon Rowland-Jones, Yuko Inoue, Mauricio Fuks and Wen Zhou Li. She went on to accept a full scholarship at The International Menuhin Music Academy, Switzerland, where her teachers were Maestro Alberto Lysy and Johannes Eskaer. Ms. Sutton was also the recipient of a full scholarship to study with Alan DeVeritch at Indiana University, where she was his Assistant.