Sarah Wallin

Current

• Violin Instructor at Rowland Music Store
• Violin Instructor at Claremont Community School of Music
• Owner at Lark Ascending Studio

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Past

• Violin Instructor at Upland/Rancho Cucamonga Music School
• Merchandising at Disneyland Resort
• Instructor, Conductor, & Arranger at BCM Youth Ensemble

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Education

• Claremont Graduate University
• California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Connections

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Industry

Music

Websites

• My Website
• Bio and Resumé

Sarah Wallin’s Summary

Sarah Wallin has been playing the violin since 1989, having studied under several different teachers, including renowned violinist and lecturer Kay Pech. Additionally, she has studied Baroque violin techniques with Los Angeles Musica Angelica violinist, M. Anne Rardin, and has performed on both Baroque violin and viola with the Early Music ensemble, Collegium Musicum. She has also been a regular performer on four-, five-, and six-string electric violins with the Cal Poly Pomona MIDI Band since 2003, and she toured with the Continental Ministries from 1999 to 2002, performing as a singer, dancer, and violinist/fiddler across the continental U.S. and throughout eleven European countries. She has performed with other numerous orchestras and ensembles throughout California and regularly performs as a soloist for a variety of events and concerts.

Wallin was awarded her Bachelor in Arts in Music Education from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona in 2006, and as of 2006, she is attending Claremont Graduate University with the aim of earning her Master’s degree in Music Composition.

Sarah Wallin has studied composition privately with Dr. Peter Yates (of Cal Poly Pomona), Dr. Mark Carlson (of UCLA), and Dr. Edward David Zeliff (of Claremont Graduate University), and she has had her compositions performed in several concerts encompassing Southern California and the prestigious Zipper Hall in Los Angeles. She has also arranged a wide variety of pieces for the MIDI Band at Cal Poly Pomona since its inception in 2003, as well as offering a wide variety of arrangements and transcriptions for students and professional colleagues. Her compositions range from solo works to chamber ensembles, to orchestral concert pieces and film and theater works. Her general style draws from such diverse sound-worlds as early and modern Classical (encompassing such composers as Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Bernstein, and Glass), new age and electronica, world, and folk.

Sarah Wallin’s Specialties:

performance, composition, education, violin

Sarah Wallin’s Experience

• Violin Instructor

  Rowland Music Store

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)

  September 2005 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Private violin instructor.

• Violin Instructor

  Claremont Community School of Music

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Music industry)

  September 2005 — Present (2 years 9 months)

• Owner

  Lark Ascending Studio

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)

  September 1998 — Present (9 years 9 months)

  Personal home studio, offering private violin lessons, periodic workshops, and other performance and enrichment opportunities. Also, contracts solo violin, or string trio or quartet, for performance gigs, such as weddings, parties, and other events.

Sarah Wallin’s Education

• Claremont Graduate University

  MA, Music Composition, 2006 — 2008 (expected)

• California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

  BA, Music Education, 2003 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Music Board, MENC

Additional Information

Sarah Wallin’s Websites:

• My Website
• Bio and Resumé

Sarah Wallin’s Interests:

violin, music (all styles), performance, education, composition, arranging, chamber, solo, orchestra, writing (fiction)

Sarah Wallin’s Groups:

Cal Poly Pomona Music Board, MENC, CMI/SC, SAA, ASTA, SMAC-LA

Sarah Wallin’s Honors:

- Graduation Honors: Summa Cum Laude 2006
- Dean’s List, Cal Poly, Pomona 2003-2006
- Cal Poly, Pomona Music Department Scholarship winner 2003-2006
- BMI John Lennon Songwriting Competition State Finalist 2003
- Disneyland Creativity Challenge Finalist (Composition) c.1993

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