E-mail
SaraAndon@aol.com
Academic Interests and Areas of Expertise
- Flute performance and music education
- Concerto soloist
- Recitalist
- Studio recording artist
- Chamber music
- Symphonic orchestra player
- Opera, ballet and broadway orchestral player
- Jazz
- Ethnic flutes
- Piano and vocal background
Courses Offered at Redlands
Applied Flute
Degrees Held
- Artist Diploma, Yale School of Music
- M.M., University of Southern California
- B.A., California State University, San Bernardino
Professional Background
Flutist Sara Andon is an international soloist and recording artist known for her ravishing tone and deeply engaging musical interpretations. A versatile performer in many music genre including solo, chamber, symphonic, opera, ballet, jazz and Broadway, she has performed all over the world in major concerts venues, TV and radio broadcasts as well as on many motion picture sound tracks.
Ms. Andon has performed with several orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pasadena Symphony, Tulsa Opera, New West Symphony, Los Angeles Master Chorale, California Philharmonic, Pasadena Pops, New Haven Symphony, Orchestra New England, San Francisco Western Opera Theater, Miami City Ballet Touring Orchestra and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. She has worked w/ such world renown conductors as Kurt Masure, David Zinman, John Maucheri, Jorge Mester and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Ms. Andon has performed with the orchestras for many Broadway musicals including "Les Miserables," Disney's "Beauty and Beast" and the critically acclaimed hit Broadway show "Wicked" ( LA Company).
As a soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Andon has performed throughout the United States, Italy, France, England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and China including performances at Carnegie hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall (NYC), St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, "CBS Sunday Morning," Universal Amphitheater, Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
She is also the solo flutist with the string chamber ensemble Da Capo Players based in Orange County as well as Mirror Visions, a vocal chamber ensemble based in New York and Paris, France specializing in newly commissioned works as well as traditional repertoire.
She has been a featured soloist at numerous music festivals including the Ojai Music Festival (CA.), Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (CT.), Grand Teton Music Festival (WY.), Music at Penn's Woods (PA.), Sunriver Music Festival (OR.), the London Baroque Music Festival & the Los Angeles Bach Festival.
Other solo performances include "Sundays LIVE at Six" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, most recently with Sarah Jackson, flutist and piccoloist with the LA Phil and Barry Gold, cellist with the LA Phil, on an all-Haydn program, and on the JACARANDA- MUSIC AT THE EDGE SERIES in Santa Monica. Ms. Andon was invited to perform with world renown flutist Ransom Wilson the Double Flute Concerto by Steven Stucky (Pulitzer-Prize winning composer and New Music Consultant-LA PHIL) at Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles. She has also performed with Jeanne Baxtresser, former principal flutist with the NY Philharmonic and Walfried Kujala, former piccoloist with the Chicago Symphony, and has made many other solo appearances performing various concerti by J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Griffes, Arnold w/ several Southland orchestras & chamber ensembles including the Redlands Symphony Mozart Classical Orchestra of Orange County performing the Mozart Concerto in 'D' Major, K. 314 w/ her own original cadenzas.
She is the Artist Teacher of Flute at the University of Redlands School of Music and the Idyllwild Arts Academy. She is also the Woodwind Coordinator for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Young Composers' Fellowship Program, Mentors: Steven Stucky, John Adams, James Matheson, and A.J. McCaffrey.
Teachers: Ransom Wilson, Janet Ferguson, Candice Palmberg
Master Classes:Jim Walker, Jeff Khaner,William Bennett, Paula Robison, Marina Puccinini, Julius Baker
Previous Teaching Experience
- Yale School of Music:
- Graduate asistant - Hearing and Analysis Department
- Teaching Assistant in Flute to Ransom Wilson
- Professor of Flute - International Flute Soloist
- University of Southern Caifornia - Teaching Assistant in Ear Training
- California State University - Teaching Assitstant in Ear Training
- Claremont Community School - Flute Instructor
- University of Redlands Community Music School - Flute Instructor
- Private Studio in Flute in the greater Los Angeles and Inland Empire areas, as well as in Connecticut and New York City
Performances and Presentations
- Paul Edmund-Davies, Principal Flute, London Symphony Orchestra
- William Bennett, Principal Flutist, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra
- Jim Walker, Flutist of Free Flight and former principal flutist, Los Angeles Philharmonic:
- Emily Beynon, Principal Flutist, Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Janet Ferguson, Former Principal Flutist, the Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Ransom Wilson, Solo Flutist, Lincoln Center Chamebr Music Society, NYC
- Jeanne Baxtresser, Former Principal Flutist, New York Philharmonic
- Mary Karen Clardy - Soloist and international clinician
- Walfried Kujala, Former Piccoloist, Chicago Symphony
- Adjudicator of the All-Southern California J/S.Bach Festival and Competition- Junior and Senior Instrumental Division
- Adjudicator of the Redlands Bowl Young Artist Competition
- Featured Soloist at the National Flute Convention in Pittsburgh
- Featured Soloist at the National Flute Convention in New York City
- Woodwind Coordinator - Los Angeles Philharmonic Young Composers Fellowship Program with composers Steven Stucky and John Adams
Professional Affiliations
- Recording Musicians' Association of Los Angeles (RMALA)
- American Federation of Muscians' Union, Local 47
- National Flute Association
- Chairperson of Redlands Symphony Players' Committee
- Pi Kappa Lambda
Recordings
Movie Sound Tracks
- Escape from Tomorrow (Abel Korzenowski, Composer, February 2012)
- The Thing (Marco Beltrami, Composer, Oct 2011) - Principal Flute/Piccolo 1/Alto & Bass Flutes
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Rolfe Kent, Composer, June 2011)
- The Rite (Alex Heffes, Composer, 2011)
- Red Riding Hood (Alex Heffes, Composer, 2011)
- Symphony Of Hope - Haiti Project (Christopher Lennertz, Composer, March 2011)
- Tron (Daft Punk, Composer, 2010)
- Sex In The City 2 (Aaron Zigman, Composer, 2010)
- Charlie St. Cloud (Rolfe Kent, Composer, 2010)
- When In Rome (Christopher Young, Composer, 2010)
- National Geographic - South African Lions (Alex Wurman, Composer, 2010)
- Disney's "Bedtime Stories (Rupert Gregson-Williams, Composer, 2008)
- The Promotion (Alex Wurman, Composer, 2007)
- Rush Hour 3 (Lalo Schifrin, Composer, 2006)
- Also Bass Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo, and Ocarinas on various sound tracks
TV Show's
- Dexter
- The Event
- Live ABC Special - American Idol Gives Back
- Sidelining on The Mentalist (May 12, 2011 Airing - Rhapsody In Red)
Chamber Recordings
- Complete JS Bach Trio Sonatas, W.F. Bach Duo Sonatas, Mozart Duos, Op.75 1- 6 with Laurel Zucker, Flutist
- Classical Music for Women an All Beethoven CD on Lifescapes Label
- Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (Artist Faculty of the University of Redlands)
Performed or Recorded With
- Placido Domingo
- Earth, Wind And Fire
- Kelly Clarkson
- Il Divo
- Annie Lennox
- Scorpions
- Peter Frampton
- Dariush
- John Tesh
- Moody Blues
- Michael Crawford
- Daft Punk
- Snow Patrol
- R.E.M.
- Josh Groban
*Also Recorded For Many Disney Theme Park Projects
Sample Recording Links
- Syrinx for Solo Flute, by Claude Debussy at SaraAndon.com
- California Concertino (2011) by LA composer Bevan Manson. Listen to the 5th Movement at bevanmanson.com