Sarah Newbold

Sarah is a member of the Academy of St.Martin in-the-Fields and the New London Orchestra and formerly of both Welsh National Opera and the London Philharmonic. As a freelance flute player, she works with most of the orchestras in Great Britain. A keen chamber musician, Sarah is a member of Cardiff Winds and Dragonfly.

As a freelance flautist Sarah is able to work in a variety of musical styles, ranging from opera, symphony and chamber orchestras, chamber music, and recitals to film sessions and some period instrument work. Teaching plays an important part in Sarah’s musical life; she has been a professor of flute at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama since 1989. In collaboration with Ian Clarke, she redesigned the technical requirements for the woodwinds at the Guildhall School. This has led to invitations to present workshops at the “Reflective Conservatoire” conference at the Barbican, London and also “Professional Development” Seminars in Finland and Norway.

In addition, since September 2010, Sarah has been a professor of flute at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Together with Zoe Smith, piano, she is director of the Llangenny Flute Summer School which has run annually since 2008. Sarah is a regular coach for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and for the I-Culture orchestra in Poland. She is sought after as an adjudicator and examiner, regularly gives masterclasses and recitals in Britain and recently in Norway, Greece, Finland, Ireland and France.

Sarah studied the flute with Atarah Ben Tovim and Alan Lockwood at Huddersfield Polytechnic and with Peter Lloyd at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She completed her studies at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies. Sarah is a Licensed Body Mapping Educator teaching the art of movement in music.