Sarah Thornblade is currently the associate principal second violin of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. She is an avid chamber musician and a member of both the Eclipse Quartet (a new music string quartet) and the Denali String Quartet. She has also performed with X-tet, Camerata Pacifica, and the Auros Group for New Music (Boston). Her playing has been described by the Los Angeles Times as “rapturously winning,” and she has been called a “marvelously versatile violinist” by the Santa Barbara News.

As a founding member of the Arianna String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at Eastern Michigan University, she won first prize at the Fischoff, Coleman and Carmel chamber music competitions.

Thornblade has performed throughout the country and abroad at festivals including Tanglewood, Spoleto, Colorado Music Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Norfolk Festival, and the Banff and Portland chamber music festivals. She has collaborated with artists such as Gilbert Kalish, Jeffrey Kahane, Andres Cardenes, Randall Hodgkinson and Warren Jones. Thornblade studied with Miriam Fried and Shmuel Ashkenasi.

photo Michael Burke