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.
Read MoreA 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."
SEE album detailsNewport Symphony Orchestra programs "Yakona" as part of "The Land, the Sea, and the Birds" concert
"Yakona" to be performed as part of the PCU's "In the Realm of Nature" concert