Sara Scanlon made her solo debut performing the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. She has won concerto competitions with the Chappaqua Orchestra, Greater New Haven Orchestra, Hamden Symphony Orchestra, and the Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra. Sara has been a featured performer in the Finckel-Wu Han Chamber Music Program at the Aspen Music Festival, the
Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the Toronto Summer Music Festival, and the PyeongChang Music Festival.
Sara regularly performs in the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players Music Series, the Fabian Concert Series, with the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, the Chamber Orchestra of America with Joshua Bell, and the Rome Chamber Music Festival. Sara attended The Juilliard Pre-college Program for six years before earning her Bachelor of Music degree, graduating summa cum laude from Mercer University and The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, studying with Julie Albers and Richard Aaron. She received her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Richard Aaron and Joel Krosnick.
Sara performs on a beautiful 18th-century cello previously owned by Eleanor Aller-Slatkin, the first woman to hold a principal cellist position in an American orchestra and a member of the Grammy Award-winning Hollywood String Quartet. This historic instrument, along with Eleanor’s performance soundtrack, which includes the premiere of Korngold’s Cello Concerto, is featured in the 1947 movie, “Deception” starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains.