Third Angle Artistic Director Sarah Tiedemann currently serves as second flute/piccolo of the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra. She has also performed locally and internationally in groups including the Swedish Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Norrköping Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Boston Philharmonic. Her new music credits include performances with Third Angle New Music, Cascadia Composers, Northwest New Music, and Boston’s Callithumpian Consort, and in 2004 her world premiere performance of Derek Jacoby’s Flute Concerto was broadcast internationally on WGBH’s Art of the States.
The recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Performance from the U.S. Department of Education, Sarah earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, followed by a Master of Music degree with honors in performance and academics from the New England Conservatory. She then received a fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and went on to pursue postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. Sarah teaches at Lewis & Clark.