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Sarah Dutcher is a solo and collaborative pianist, instructor, and composer based in Georgia. She specializes in new works and has performed several local and world premieres of new music by current composers. Notable performance engagements include Lincoln Center, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and internationally in Italy and Portugal. Her vocal piece “Sleep” was commissioned and performed by members of the Grammy-winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth and was nominated for Best Composition of the Year by the the Austin Critics’ Table. Her first solo album “Letters to the Afternoon” was released on the Brooklyn label Soap Library at the start of 2021. Her compositional style is anchored in French piano music and traditional jazz standards, resulting in “a harmony of stimulating piano textures and bright rhythms with a keen ear towards tunefulness.” (Soap Library) In 2023, Sarah was awarded a Creative Residency Fellowship at The Hambidge Center.
She has a Masters in Performance from Hunter College CUNY where she studied with Dr. Geoffrey Burleson, and received a BM in Piano Performance and a BA in English from The University of Georgia in Athens, GA where she studied piano with Dr. Martha Thomas and pedagogy with Dr. Pete Jutras. She has been teaching private lessons for over a decade and currently teaches all ages through online platforms.