Sarah Gait
INTRODUCTION
Innovative British musician and creator Sarah Gait has appeared on BBC Radio 3 as all of cellist, composer and pianist. An awardee of the Royal Philharmonic Society and BBC, Sarah has studied at the Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg, the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, also holding a Fellowship at Smith Square Hall, London.
Sarah’s current projects are supported by the Stadt Salzburg and by a Fellowship from the Universität Mozarteum, enabling her to develop unique interdisciplinary collaborations with leading artists from multiple genres (theatre, dance, spoken and written word, visual art and media). Since 2025 she performs with Swiss soprano Laurine Moulin as the duo Khorda Humana, specialising in contemporary and intuitive music.
Preservation of nature and humanitarian causes are both close to Sarah’s heart: her poems on themes of nature were published in Red Canary Magazine, USA, while her creative video, composed during the Covid-19 lockdown and an artistic reflection on the theme of Beethoven’s deafness, won the ISA Digital Award Vienna. Sarah has choreographed and composed both text and video for her own works, including new works for the Ensemble Neue Musik Mozarteum and for the Composers’ Forum in Mittersill, kofomi, to which she was invited in 2026.
BIOGRAPHY
Sarah has developed special relationships with the music both of Ukraine and of Brazil. In support of the Ukrainian people, Sarah is honoured to present a series of concerts celebrating Kyiv-born composer Reinhold Glière, in partnership with the R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music and the composer’s family. Sarah’s promotion of Brazilian music, meanwhile, stems from a close and positive relationship with the Brazilian Embassy, London, where she has performed several recitals. These included her own work commissioned especially for the occasion, as well as a new sonata composed for her by Marino Arcaro, which she subsequently recorded for CBM Records with the support of the RVW Trust. In December 2025 Sarah gave her first concert at the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin, with violinist Nathan Amoral and pianist Clelia Iruzun, as ‘The Brazilian Piano Trio’. Among other explorations of lesser-known music, Sarah gave the UK première of the cello works of Philip Herschkowitz.
As a soloist, Sarah has performed at prestigious festivals across Europe, such as Schleswig-Holstein and Weimar (Germany), Sion and Lac Leman (Switzerland) and Verao Classico (Portugal). She draws inspiration from her masterclasses with revered cellists – among them, Claudio Bohórquez, David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Miklos Perenyi. Her innovative projects include a traditional Argentinian tango ensemble, collaborations with dancers and artists, intuitive music with renowned practitioner Markus Stockhausen and countless celebrations of live improvisation – a field in which she excels.
Winner of the BBC Proms Young Composers’ Competition, Sarah has received numerous commissions and premières from prestigious ensembles as a composer, including from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and, with herself as soloist in a semi-improvised cello concerto, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. For more information see Sarah Gait Composer. Sarah enjoys collaborations with many contemporary composers, such as Paul Patterson in the UK and Johannes Maria Staud in Austria, as well as performing and recording countless works written specially for and dedicated to her.
Also featuring in Classical Music Magazine, Sarah is a committed advocate of the role of classical music in young people's lives, appearing as Ambassador for the BBC Proms Inspire Scheme and Mentor for Awards for Young Musicians, and receiving a Cultural Award from her home region of Cumbria. Sarah plays on an 18th-century cello originally from the private collection of Dr Peter Hauber and recently acquired by MitMachMusik Berlin.