Website: www.sarah-danielle.com

Sarah Danielle-Grosskopf is an active conductor, concert pianist and orchestrator/arranger.
Music Director of the Studio City Opera in California
A native of Chicago, she holds a double Bachelor of Music in piano and organ performance and a Master of Music in piano performance from Roosevelt University’s, Chicago College of the Performing Arts. She also had private studies in orchestration at the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music. She received her conducting diploma from the Musikhochschule Luzern in Switzerland.

She made her debut as concert pianist in Vevey, Switzerland at the Théâtre de Vevey and has since concertized throughout several cities in Switzerland, France and Germany. She is an active chamber music player, harpsichordist and organist. Her organist debut was in Paris, France at the Eglise de St. Augustin and she has played harpsichord with several ensembles in Switzerland. Her conducting debut was in Chicago, Illinois with the Loop Chamber Orchestra.

As an orchestral and opera guest conductor, she has conducted the Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra in France, the Regio Chor in Basel, Switzerland, the Junge Philharmonie Zentralschweiz in Luzern, Switzerland, the Chamber Opera of the University of Southern California in a world premier of Daron Hagen’s “Broken Pieces” and the University Campus Choir of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

As an orchestrator, her 5 orchestrations from Tchaikovsky’s “Seasons” were well received from critics in Luzern and Engelberg, Switzerland. She was also commissioned by a Hollywood composer to conduct a musical submission for an independent film project with the Collegium Musicum Orchestra in Mulhouse, France.