Sarah Wald holds degrees from Columbia University (BA) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (MM). In spring 2021, she will receive her PhD from the University of California, Davis. Sarah’s music has been featured at festivals in the U.S. and Europe and on WFMT’s Relevant Tones. Over the last few years, her pieces were selected from calls for scores for New Music on the Bayou (2016), women’s choir Vox Musica (2017), chamber group North/South Consonance (2018), and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival (2020). Sarah has also received a number of grants and commissions from organizations such as the Illinois Arts Council Agency, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, the Saint Xavier University Flute Choir, the University of Tennessee Martin’s Contemporary Music Group, Keyed Kontraptions, and Access Contemporary Music.