Violinist Sadie Fields performs frequently throughout the UK and in her home country of Canada. Since being invited at the age of fourteen by conductor Victor Feldbrill to perform as soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, 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. Sadie has also been featured as guest soloist with a number of orchestras throughout the UK, recently playing the Beethoven concerto, Bruch G minor concerto, Mendelssohn concerto, Alban Berg concerto, and Vaughan Williams ‘Lark Ascending’. Upcoming performances include Chausson Poeme with the Manchester Beethoven Orchestra, and Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with the West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra.

Sadie appears regularly in solo recitals, and has been featured in the Guelph Musicfest, Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society Series, the Caskey Recital Series, and the Guelph Spring Festival. Sadie has performed for the Prime Minister of Canada and for the late Pope John Paul II, and she has been featured in a national broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation playing works by Sarasate. In the UK, Sadie has appeared at many important music festivals including the Windsor Festival, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, the Newbury Spring Festival, and the Halifax Young Musicians’ Showcase. Sadie has also performed Stravinsky’s ‘Soldier’s Tale’ at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, and has appeared in London at Goldsmith’s Hall and St. Bride’s Church. Sadie has attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the International School for Musical Arts, and most recently, the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, where she was selected to perform for a former president of Germany. Sadie has also been invited to perform at the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival in 2008.

Sadie has won major awards from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund, the Leverhulme Trust, the Zochonis Charitable Trust, and the Edward Johnson Music Foundation. She was also a first prize winner of the Canadian Music Competition, a winner of the Edward Johnson Music Competition, winner of the Kitchener-Waterloo Concerto Competition, and winner of the RNCM Eleanor Warren Prize and the Weil Prize.

Prior to her studies at the RNCM, Sadie received full scholarship to attend the Young Artists Performance Academy in Toronto, where she studied with Atis Bankas. In addition, Sadie has had lessons and masterclasses with many of the most distinguished violin pedagogues, including Victor Danchenko, Aaron Rosand, Marucio Fuks, Almita Vamos, Paul Kantor, Ivry Gitlis, Zvi Zeitlin, and Nelli Schkolnikova. Sadie won full scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, where she now studies with Prof. Yair Kless. Sadie plays on a 1677 violin by Francesco Ruggieri, kindly on loan from the RNCM. She also owns a fine modern instrument, custom made for her by Terry Borman, USA.

More information available at www.sadiefields.com