5.02.2016

Violin Lessons

Violin Lessons

Traditional and

Suzuki Methods for violin

  • I offer 30, 45 and 1-hour lessons weekly

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For all beginners,
included in the lessons is an
eight-week introductory Suzuki violin course.

5.01.2016

Biography: Sarah Almetus

Sarah Almétus began studying the violin at the age of 3. She earned her BM in Violin Performance & studied with Ruth Meints at Biola University. From there she went on to earn her MM at East Carolina University. She studied with Joanne Bath & Ara Gregorian

In 2001 she moved to Houston, TX where she became a member of the Woodlands Symphony Orchestra, taught privately & started a string program at two elementary schools. In 2006 she moved to Rochester, NY and joined the faculty at the Hochstein School of Music. There she co-founded the East String Quartet who performed at various venues including Hochstein's "Spotlight on Faculty" Series and at Eastman composers' forum. On numerous occasions she performed with “Ossia,” a new music ensemble at the Eastman School of Music. 

 

She now has an active studio in Davis where she currently has lived since 2008 with her husband & two boys. She has been on faculty as Lecturer in the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific since the Fall of 2020. She has also taught on faculty at the Omaha Conservatory of Music Summer Institute in 2015-2017. She presently plays with the Stockton Symphony & the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera and has also played with the Modesto Symphony Orchestra, the Solano Symphony & the Stockton Opera Orchestra.