Sarah Oates enjoys a varied career combining chamber music, orchestral

leading and teaching. As the associate concertmaster of the Philharmonia

Orchestra in London she has performed regularly in the great concert halls and

around the world. She is a sought-after guest concertmaster with other world

class orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC

Philharmonic, the Royal Opera House of Brussels, and the Scottish Chamber

Orchestra. Sarah has recently been appointed first concertmaster of the Dutch

National Ballet Orchestra in Amsterdam.

Sarah's education began in her country of birth, South Africa, with Louis van der

Watt. She went on to study with Yossi Zivoni in at the Purcell School in London,

then at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and with Pinchas

Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

Sarah maintains a busy chamber music schedule. As a member of the Devich

Piano Trio she recorded four CD's with Challenge Records to international critical

acclaim. Recent recordings include a CD with Warner Classics, with works by

Chausson, with her string quartet, the Philharmonia Chamber Players. She is a

founding member of the Phoenix Festival, an annual chamber music festival in

Brussels, with an ensemble of international musicians based in Belgium, Brussels

Muzique. She is a member of the Ubuntu Ensemble, a group of South African

musicians currently based in the UK and Europe, who come together to perform

classical repertoire as well as showcasing contemporary South African

composers.

Sarah is a violin professor at the London Performing Academy of Music.

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