Lecturer, Baroque Cello, Historical Performance
Baroque Cello, Teaching Associate in Historical Performance. Cellist Sarah Freiberg is equally at home with baroque and contemporary music. Formerly a principal of San Francisco’ s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the Portland (Oregon) Baroque Orchestra, she now performs with Boston Baroque; the Handel and Haydn Society; the Streicher Fortepiano Trio; and the Freeman/Freiberg Duo. Freiberg played with the prize-winning Sierra String Quartet and the new music groups Earplay and the Davis New Music Ensemble. A corresponding editor for STRINGS magazine and a founding member of the prize-winning Sierra String Quartet, she regularly plays in the summer chamber music series of Music at Eden’s Edge and Monadnock Music. Freiberg received her DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Stony Brook and holds an Artist Certificate in chamber music from the San Francisco Conservatory, as well as degrees from Brown University (in American Civilization) and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She recorded the sonatas of Francesco Guerini for Centaur Records (CRC 2534) and edited them for PRB Productions and the Broude Trust. Freiberg can also be heard on Harmonia Mundi; Koch; Music and Arts; Saydisc; and Bayer Records. She teaches in the historical performance department of Boston University as well as at the Powers Music School.