About

Sarah Bowe is a freelance choral specialist working in performance, pedagogy, and administration.

As a nationally active guest artist, clinician, and presenter, she is sought after for her engaging programming and cultivation of connected, joyful artistry. Bowe's choral appointments have included faculty roles at Queens College (CUNY), Cornell University, and Central Connecticut State University, as well as interim work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and positions in music ministry and secondary music education. In addition to regular festival appearances along the East Coast, she has collaborated with choirs and educators across the Northeast and South through workshops and guest lectures, and has presented her research and teaching at conferences with the American Choral Directors Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and the National Collegiate Choral Organization.

Collaborations include performances with members of Metropolis Ensemble (NY), the Morehouse College Glee Club, and the University of Virginia University Singers. She has also collaborated with Main Street Children’s Choir (New Britain, CT) and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

As a soprano, Bowe has performed with ensembles such as Convoco (PA), The Princeton Singers (NJ), Vox Lusciniae (NY), Viatores Mundi (CA), Vermont Chamber Artists, Voce (CT), Festina (MA), Red Shift (LA), Illumine Vocal Arts Ensemble (MA), the Iron City Singers (AL), and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, among others, alongside frequent local and regional church engagements. She is also a proud alumna and former administrator of Seraphic Fire’s Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Bowe maintains a private teaching studio specializing in musicianship and conducting, manages operations for Wildflower Composers, serves as administrator for composer Melissa Dunphy’s Mormolyke Press, and serves on the board for Convoco.

Bowe holds an M.M. and a B.M. summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and completed D.M.A. coursework (A.B.D.) in Choral Conducting at Louisiana State University.