Canadian violinist Sadie Fields leads an active performing career as soloist and chamber musician. Since making her debut at age fourteen under conductor Victor Feldbrill, Sadie has been featured as guest soloist with many Canadian orchestras, such as the Windsor Symphony, the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, the National Festival Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Chamber Academy, and the Toronto String Orchestra. Since coming to the UK in 2003, Sadie has performed as soloist with many orchestras, including the Cheshire Sinfonia, the Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra, the Manchester Beethoven Orchestra, the West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, the University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra, and with the Karntner Sinforieorchester in Austria.
Sadie appears regularly in solo recitals, and has been broadcast nationally in Canada by the CBC playing works by Sarasate. Sadie was selected by the Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society to appear in recital at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, and has also performed at the Windsor Festival, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, the Newbury Spring Festival, and the Halifax Young Musicians’ Showcase. Sadie has performed for the Prime Minister of Canada and for the late Pope John Paul II, and has been invited to perform at the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival, the Keshet Eilon International Violin Mastercourse (Israel), the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove and the Northern Lights Music Festival in Mexico.
Sadie is a prize winner of the 9th Vaclav Huml International Violin Competition (Croatia), won the Prize of the Salzburg Mozarteum at the 15th Johannes Brahms International Music Competition (Austria), and was a semi-finalist at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand. Sadie has won major awards from the Hattori Foundation, the English Speaking Union, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund, the Leverhulme Trust, the Zochonis Charitable Trust, the Pidem Fund, and the Edward Johnson Music Foundation. She was also a First Prize winner of the Canadian Music Competition, winner of the Kitchener-Waterloo Concerto Competition, winner of the RNCM Eleanor Warren Prize, and winner of the RNCM Concerto Competition.
Before coming to the UK, Sadie was awarded full scholarship to attend the Young Artists Performance Academy in Toronto, where she studied with Prof. Atis Bankas. Sadie has also had lessons and masterclasses with Ida Haendel, Victor Danchenko, Aaron Rosand, Marucio Fuks, Almita Vamos, Paul Kantor, Ivry Gitlis, Zvi Zeitlin, Eduard Grach, and Leonidas Kavakos.
Sadie graduated with a First Class Honours degree from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, where she won a full scholarship to study with Yair Kless. Sadie has been awarded full scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she will study with Gyorgy Pauk. Sadie plays on a J.B. Guadagnini of 1757 and a modern American violin by Terry Borman, USA.
