Music Direction
As a music director, Sarah has worked on classic and new musicals, plays with music, actor-musician pieces, and concerts in venues including the UK's National Theatre, the Neuköllner Oper, Heimathafen Neukölln, 54 Below, Two River Theater, and universities across the US, UK and Germany. She is a versatile, collaborative pianist who most frequently conducts from the keys, and she prides herself on the deep musical dramaturgy she brings to song interpretation and arrangement.
Sarah is a frequent collaborator with Berlin-based Musiktheatergruppe glanz&krawall as a musical director, composer, arranger and accompanist, and she has taught Liedinterpretation at HfS Ernst Busch and music directed in the Musical/Show course at UdK. She is currently serving as music director for the Deutsche Musical Akademie and Korrepetitorin for the Berliner Mädchenchor. She is also the ongoing music supervisor for the cult favorite Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring. In 2022, she participated in Stage Entertainment's workshop for female conductors, and she co-leads the D-A-CH regional group of Maestra, which provides support and visibility to FLINTA* composers, music directors, and musicians.
Sarah is a frequent collaborator with Berlin-based Musiktheatergruppe glanz&krawall as a musical director, composer, arranger and accompanist, and she has taught Liedinterpretation at HfS Ernst Busch and music directed in the Musical/Show course at UdK. She is currently serving as music director for the Deutsche Musical Akademie and Korrepetitorin for the Berliner Mädchenchor. She is also the ongoing music supervisor for the cult favorite Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring. In 2022, she participated in Stage Entertainment's workshop for female conductors, and she co-leads the D-A-CH regional group of Maestra, which provides support and visibility to FLINTA* composers, music directors, and musicians.
Photo by Agnes Wiener and Niklas Wagner
Music directing highlights include:
1000 Airplanes on the Roof
by Philip Glass and David Henry Hwang, Neuköllner Oper, music director
Die Zauberblockflöte
hannsjana and Theater Thikwa, glanz&krawall's BERLIN IS NOT SALZBURG, music director
SCHROFFENSTEIN: In Grund und Boden. Eine Punk-Oper.
glanz&krawall, Heimathafen Neukölln, composer and music director
Die Tüten aus der Verwaltung: Das Bürokratie-Musical von glanz&krawall und Theater Thikwa
glanz&krawall and Theater Thikwa, composer and music director
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Volkstheater Rostock, composer and music director
STADT DER TEUFEL: Operetten-Radau mit glanz&krawall, Franz von Suppé und Michail Bulgakow
glanz&krawall, Heimathafen Neukölln, music director
Hamlet for young audiences
The UK National Theatre, composer and music director
Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring
Steve Allen Theater in LA, music director, music supervisor, and copyist
As You Like It
Two River Theater, music director
Intersections: The Music of Ellis and Williamson
54 Below, composer and music director
1000 Airplanes on the Roof
by Philip Glass and David Henry Hwang, Neuköllner Oper, music director
Die Zauberblockflöte
hannsjana and Theater Thikwa, glanz&krawall's BERLIN IS NOT SALZBURG, music director
SCHROFFENSTEIN: In Grund und Boden. Eine Punk-Oper.
glanz&krawall, Heimathafen Neukölln, composer and music director
Die Tüten aus der Verwaltung: Das Bürokratie-Musical von glanz&krawall und Theater Thikwa
glanz&krawall and Theater Thikwa, composer and music director
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Volkstheater Rostock, composer and music director
STADT DER TEUFEL: Operetten-Radau mit glanz&krawall, Franz von Suppé und Michail Bulgakow
glanz&krawall, Heimathafen Neukölln, music director
Hamlet for young audiences
The UK National Theatre, composer and music director
Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring
Steve Allen Theater in LA, music director, music supervisor, and copyist
As You Like It
Two River Theater, music director
Intersections: The Music of Ellis and Williamson
54 Below, composer and music director