Sarah Newbold 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 player she works with most of
the orchestras in Great Britain and regularly with the Philharmonia
and London Symphony Orchestra. She 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 period
instrument work.
Teaching plays an important part in Sarah's
musical life and 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
woodwind at the Guildhall School, this has led to invitations to
present workshops at the "Reflective Conservatoire" conference at
the Barbican, London and also the "Professional Development"
Seminar in Helsinki, Finland.
Together with Zoe Smith, piano, she is
director of the Llangenny Flute Summer School which is in its
fourth highly successful year.
Sarah is a regular coach for the National
Youth Orchestra of Great Britain both for their open days and the
main orchestra courses. She is sought after as an adjudicator and
examiner, regularly giving masterclasses and recitals in Britain
and recently in Norway, Greece, Finland and Ireland.
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.