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Sarah Stone is drawn to cello and viola da gamba through a curiosity in the cultural history of the music she plays and how it intersects with the stories we tell today. Sarah is Executive Director of the Queens-based chamber ensemble Repast Baroque, and Artistic Director of Bitterroot Baroque, a community baroque orchestra in Montana. She performs with Apollo’s Fire, Tafelmusik, Handel and Haydn, Seraphic Fire, The Sebastians, Bach Charlotte, New York Baroque Incorporated, The Staunton Music Festival, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra.

 

Established in 2004, Sarah became Executive Director of Repast Baroque in 2023. Like a well-curated tasting menu, Repast Baroque offer a feast for the senses, treating listeners to the rich and eclectic flavors of concerts framed by stories from history. Sarah has curated Repast’s programming around themes including visual art and literary genres with multimedia elements including projections and silent film. 

Sarah is artistic director of Bitterroot Baroque, based in Hamilton, Montana, helping bring in period ensembles and musicians to perform, coach chamber music, and lead early music workshops for members of the Bitterroot Baroque Orchestra since 2015. Through a Circuit Rider Grant from the Viola da Gamba Society of America in 2025, she also expanded the orchestra by starting several local musicians on viol and adding in community viol playdates and consort readings.

 

"The show is not over... Questlove keeps spinning into the early morning. Sir Patrick Stewart has been reading a Shakespeare sonnet everyday. Sarah Stone, who plays cello and viola da gamba, has stuck to her “Bach Everyday” performances from her apartment in New York City. Since March 19, she’s done a Bach Chorale each day.” (Geoff Edgers, The Washington Post, 2020). Recording everyday for over a year, Everyday Bach includes chorales from cantata in order of BWVs, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, Art of the Fugue, and the B Minor Mass. Everyday Bach was featured in the Washington Post, The Greene Space (WNYC), and Early Music America, and can be found on TikTok and Youtube.

 

Sarah holds a Masters in Historical Performance from the Juilliard School, a Masters from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelors of Music from Rice University. She has studied with Mara Finkelstein, Norman Fischer, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Elizabeth Reed, Sarah Cunningham, and Phoebe Carrai. She loves gardening, animation, long walks, deep-dives into digitized collections, and her cats Nyx and Erebus.