SARAH GAIT

Cumbrian-born cellist and composer Sarah Gait is an alumna of the Royal Academy of Music and Royal Northern College of Music and awardee of the Royal Philharmonic Society and BBC. Moving to Berlin in 2022, her busy performing career as soloist and chamber musician features venues across UK and Europe, including Barbican Centre, King’s Place and St John’s Smith Square, with recent concerts at the Embassy of Brazil in London, Gohliser Schlösschen Leipzig and Palais Lichtenau Berlin.

Remarkably, Sarah has performed on BBC Radio 3 as all of solo cellist, solo pianist and composer. Also featuring in Classical Music Magazine, she is a committed advocate of the role of classical music in young people's lives, appearing as Ambassador for the BBC Proms Inspire Scheme and receiving the 2019 Cumbria Life Culture Award for cultural work in her home county.

Sarah is active in the audiovisual scene, winning the 2020 ISA Digital Award, from MDW Vienna for her first video, while her record label will launch in 2024. Sarah is the grateful dedicatee of many new works for cello and in 2019 gave the world première of her own newly commissioned work for improvising solo cellist and orchestra with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.