Sarah has worked in a wide variety of musical genres, as both writer and performer, from classical music to jazz, rock and pop. For the past seventeen years she has been the director of the Lullingstone String Quartet and has also written and performed string parts for T.V., studio recordings and live performances. Her guitar work has taken her to all kinds of venues playing all kinds of styles, from folk clubs and rock festivals throughout Europe to performances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, classical recitals and West End musical theatre. Sarah is in demand as a multi-instrumentalist recently playing violin, guitar and banjo for Sheffield Crucible’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins” and performing with the legendary Lee Hazlewood on violin, guitar, vocals and percussion at the South Bank’s 2004 Meltdown Festival. Last year she toured the UK and the US with Alison Moyet as her backing vocalist, violinist and guitarist. In 2005 she made her acting debut at the Salisbury Playhouse in the UK premier of “Playing For Time”, Arthur Miller’s play about the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz.

After 6 years as a lecturer in Popular Music she combined her performing career with teaching and conducting musical theatre (Sarah has played in or been musical director for over 160 productions) and was the first female conductor of the Dartford Symphony Orchestra. She is spending an increasing amount of time writing and arranging, recently conducting one of her compositions at the Royal Albert Hall. Sarah is also the author of five guitar teaching books and has written and recorded the score for a short film, “Common Ground”, screened last year. She is a violinist with the BBC Concert Orchestra and can often be heard on “Friday Night Is Music Night”, the world’s longest-running live music programme on radio. Her work with the orchestra has included recent performances with Mark Ronson, Kiki Dee, Westlife, Madeleine Bell, Petula Clark, Alfie Boe, Nigel Kennedy, Shirley Bassey, Kylie Minogue, Lulu, Chaka Khan, Smokey Robinson, The Feeling, Barry Manilow, Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) and Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead).