Equally at home in the solo, chamber, and orchestral stages, Sarah Frisof is a passionate flutist and educator. As a soloist, Dr. Frisof was the second-prize winner of both the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition and the Heida Hermanns International Woodwind Competition, and she was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Kobe International Flute Competition. As a committed proponent of new music, Ms. Frisof frequently premieres new works, including recent works by Ingrid Stölzel, Damian Montano, and Joel Puckett. In June of 2016, Dr. Frisof released her first solo CD, Looking Back, an authoritative recording of all of Schwantner’s major works for flute, with duo partner Daniel Pesca. Her second album, Beauty Crying Forth, is a compilation of flute music by female composers and was released in August of 2020.

In addition to Dr. Frisof’s work as a solo artist, she is an active orchestral musician, having worked with major symphony orchestras across the country, including the Baltimore Symphony, National Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Kansas City Symphony and many others. Dr. Frisof also serves as the principal flute of the Dallas Winds, the premier wind band in the United States. In the summers, Ms. Frisof plays with several festival orchestras including the Sunflower Festival (Topeka, KS), and Music in the Mountains (Durango, CO). An enthusiastic educator, she has taken her passion for education to global audiences, including working with young students in Zimbabwe and Brazil. A graduate of the Eastman School, The Juilliard School, and the University of Michigan, Dr. Frisof is the Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Maryland.