Sarah Mead

mead@brandeis.edu
(781) 736-2935
Slosberg 225

Director of the Brandeis Early Music Ensemble, Sarah Mead (Associate Professor of the Practice, MUS10c, MUS110b) holds degrees in music and performance practice from Yale and Stanford, and has taught at both Tufts and Northeastern Universities, as well as being a guest lecturer at Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, and at Trinity College of Music in London, UK. She serves on the Higher Education Committee for Early Music America, and on the Board of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. She is the Program Director for Early Music Week at Pinewoods, and has taught in and organized numerous viol workshops on both coasts, as well as in England. She is the author of the chapter on Renaissance Theory in A Performer's Guide to the Renaissance, published by Schirmer. She is an active performer in the Boston area, and maintains a home studio where she teaches viol and Renaissance theory.

She was conductor of the University Chamber Choir and the University Chorus for Fall 2005.

Brandeis will be celebrating her 25 years of teaching at the University with a silver anniversary concert