Sarah Pratt was a prizewinner at the 2003 Jeunesses Musicales International Violin Compitition, first prize winner in the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, the University of Toronto Concerto Competition, and Silver Medal winner in the Canadian National Music Competition. At the age of 14 she made her solo debut with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra at the Guelph Spring Festival. Since then she has performed with many orchestras, including the Toronto Symphony, Allentown Symphony, University of Toronto Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. She was a recipient of the Kathleen Parlow, and Andrew A. Kinghorn scholarships from the University of Toronto; full tuition scholarships from Yale School of Music; tuition scholarships, and the Mitchell Stern scholarship, from SUNY Stony Brook.
     Recital appearances include the British Art Museum (New Haven, CT), Bargemusic, the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society and Stratford Summer Music Festival (Canada), the Arts and Letters and Heliconian clubs of Toronto, and the Rupert Scheider Concert Series at the University of Toronto. She gave the University of Toronto premiere of Davidovski’s Synchronisms No. 9 in 1997.
     Sarah is currently a member of the New York City Opera orchestra, a position she won in November, 2006. She has appeared as concertmaster of the Florida Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (where she was a member for 5 years), the Canturbury Choral Society, and others. Sarah is also on faculty at the Third Street Music School Settlement, both as a private teacher and chamber music coach. She was one of the guest artists invited to the 2007 inagural season of the Clefworks Music Festival, held in Montgomery, Alabama.
     Sarah holds a Bachelor in Performance Degree from the University of Toronto, Masters Degree and Artist Diploma from Yale University. She is a Doctoral Candidate at SUNY Stony Brook. Major teachers have been David Zafer, Peter Oundjian, and Ani Kavafian. Other teachers have included Pamela Frank, Pinchas Zukerman, Lorand Fenyves, members of the Brentano, Tokyo, Emerson, and St. Lawrence string quartets.  Summer music festivals include The Great Lakes Chamber Music festival, Taos School of Music, Tanglewood, Encore School for Strings, the Colorado Springs Music Festival, the National Arts Center Festival, Domain Forget, and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.