SARA CARINA GRAEF

Composer

"Graef’s piece is the most complex and modern on this CD – yet is thoroughly enjoyable."

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Sara Carina Graef’s music has been performed around the United States as well as in Canada, Europe, and Mexico. She has held composer residencies at the Ucross Foundation, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Ernest Bloch Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposiums. She served on the faculty of the Luzerne Music Center, on the board of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Composers Forum, as President of Friends of Music at Cal State LA, and has recently joined the team at the Institute for Composer Diversity.

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Latest Album

Life & Love

A Woman's Life (and Love) was commissioned by Alta Marie Boover as a companion piece to Robert Schumann's 1830 song cycle, Frauenliebe und Leben, or "A Woman's Love and Life."

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News

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"Yakona" to be performed by NSO
January 18, 2025

"Yakona" to be performed by NSO

Newport Symphony Orchestra programs "Yakona" as part of "The Land, the Sea, and the Birds" concert

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Portland Columbia Symphony performs "Yakona"
March 15, 2024

Portland Columbia Symphony performs "Yakona"

"Yakona" to be performed as part of the PCU's "In the Realm of Nature" concert

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2022

Yakona

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