Sarah Tiedemann, Principal Flute

Jennifer Sarah Tiedemann has appeared as a chamber musician, orchestral performer, and soloist throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. Currently serving as Second Flute if Portland's Columbia Symphony and Principal Flute of the Salem Chamber Orchestra, she has played locally with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera,Vancouver Symphony, and Portland Chamber Orchestra. She has also performed throughout the United States and Europe in groups includingthe Swedish Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Norrkoping Symphony, and Boston Philharmonic. Sarah is a faculty member at both Willamette University and Pacific University, and maintains private studios inPortland, Salem, and Forest Grove.

Sarah received a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from Oberlin Conservatory in 2002, followed by a Master of Music degree in Performance from New England Conservatory in 2004, where she was the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Performance from the U.S. Department of Education. From 2004-2005, she pursued postgraduate studies at the Kungliga Musikhogskolan (Royal College of Music) in Stockholm, Sweden funded by a fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and a travel grant from the American Women's Club of Sweden. Her teachers have included Michel Debost, Jeanne Baxtresser, Tobias Carron, and John Heiss.

Upon returning to Oregon in 2005, Sarah ventured into acting with a starring role as angtsy 20-something Quinn Sullivan in Wiley Films' Temporary Insanity, which was filmed locally and is currently in post-production. She has studied voice with Grammy-nominated artist Valerie Day and can be heard performing vocals on the Temporary Insanity soundtrack, as well as vocals and rock flute on Portland band Sarahtonin's debut CD Wayward. In her spare time, Sarah also enjoys writing, cooking, hiking, and distance running. More information is available on her website, www.sarahtiedemann.com.