Sarah Crocker is a renowned violinist, born and raised in Syracuse, New York. She joined the esteemed Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 2008, following a stint as a member of the Detroit Symphony and Acting Assistant Concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony during the 2006-2007 season. Additionally, she has performed as a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and as a substitute with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
As a founding member of the Verklarte Quartet, Ms. Crocker was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2003 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. She has also received top prizes in the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition, the Syracuse Symphony Concerto Competition, and the Doreen B. Herzog Young Artists Competition. Ms. Crocker has appeared as a soloist with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, the Syracuse Symphony, the Up Close and Musical Chamber Orchestra, the Onondaga Civic Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and regularly performs solo recitals at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York.
Ms. Crocker holds a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Ronald Copes and Naoko Tanaka, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with David Updegraff. She has attended numerous summer festivals, including the Banff Centre Chamber Music Residency, Yellow Barn Music Festival, the Audubon Quartet Seminar, Kneisel Hall, Music Academy of the West, ENCORE School for Strings, and the Algonquin International Music Festival. She has also studied chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Emerson, Audubon, Cavani, and Takacs String Quartets.
In addition to her performing activities, Ms. Crocker is dedicated to teaching. Her teaching experiences have included teaching violin privately, coaching chamber music in master class settings, and teaching 2nd- and 3rd-grade aesthetic education classes at Manhattan's P.S. 11 as a Juilliard School Morse Teaching Fellow.
Ms. Crocker enjoys exploring genres outside of classical music and has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, accompanying singer-songwriter Howie Day. She has also appeared regularly on the New York club circuit with the Brooklyn-based band Tryst and the Philadelphia-based performer Sexcop.
