Violinist Sarah Vonsattel currently resides in New York City where she has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 2008. Ms. Vonsattel leads an active life as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the Classical Tahoe Orchestra, the Syracuse Orchestra, the Coastal Symphony of Georgia, the musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, among others. Recent chamber music performances include appearances at Weill Recital Hall, Manchester Music Festival, Parlance Chamber Concerts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series, Classical Tahoe, Bargemusic, Prager Center for the Arts, Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, the Bronxville Chamber Music Series, and the New Marlborough House Concerts. As a founding member of the Verklärte Quartet, Ms. Vonsattel was a Grand Prize Winner of the 2003 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, leading to concert tours in the U.S. and Italy with this ensemble. Also a proponent of new music, Sarah has appeared with the iO string quartet, the Talea Ensemble, the League of Composers Orchestra, and Sequitur in New York and can be heard on the Bridge Records label performing the music of Poul Ruders and Tod Machover.

Sarah Vonsattel has appeared as both performer and faculty member at festivals including the Orfeo International Music Festival (Italy), the Wellesley Composers Conference (Massachusetts), and the Musical Friends Academy (Tunisia). She regularly instructs advanced students preparing to take professional orchestra auditions, and she has experience teaching students from beginner level through pre-professional. Prior to joining the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, she held positions in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony. 

Ms. Vonsattel studied with David Updegraff at the Cleveland Institute of Music (YAP ’00 and BM ’04), and with Ronald Copes and Naoko Tanaka at the Juilliard School (MM ’04). Sarah lives in Manhattan with her husband, concert pianist Gilles Vonsattel, and their two children, Felix and Nina.