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The American violinist, Sasha Callahan, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from Rice University; and her Master of Music degree from Boston University. Principal teachers include Lucia Lin, Sergiu Luca, Dénes Zsigmondy, and Carol Sindell.
Sasha Callahan has established a vibrant and diverse career as recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician. She has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan and is a founding member of Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival, Sheffield Chamber Players, the Lunaire String Quartet and Kalistos Chamber Orchestra. Chamber music has been one of her great loves since she played her first string quartets with her sister Eve and their grandparents. She is especially interested in projects that make classical music approachable by forging connection and community between audience and performers.
The Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival, Sheffield Chamber Players, and the educational string trio All Ears were each formed with this in mind. Sasha Callahan is committed to sharing new music with audiences, and has worked closely with many composers such as Joan Tower, Nathaniel Stookey, Gabriela Lena Frank, Andrew Waggoner, Osvaldo Golijov, Jakov Jakoulov, Andrew List, Daniel Wohl, Theodore Antoniou, Kenji Bunch, Lukas Foss, and Gunther Schuller. As an active chamber musician, she can often be heard playing duos with her husband, cellist Leo Eguchi, as well as performances with groups such as the Aurea Ensemble, Walden Chamber Players, the Corigliano Quartet, the Lunaire Quartet, Trio Veritas, and ALEA III, and frequent chamber performances at the New Hampshire Music Festival (even on the occasional mountain top).
Recent highlights include a sold out run as the violinist for the American Repertory Theater’s revival of Porgy and Bess, a performance as soloist of concertos by J.S. Bach and Johannes Brahms' Double Concerto, a solo J.S. Bach performance at the National Cathedral (D.C.), and performances with the World Youth Orchestra, an international orchestra assembled to present concerts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She can be heard as a member of the Portland (Maine) Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and New Hampshire Music Festival, as well as with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Boston Classical Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, Odyssey Opera, Emmanuel Music and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. She currently resides in Boston with her husband Leo Eguchi, daughter Freya, and two rather sedentary cats named Max and Katya. |
