Sarah Sew was appointed Professor of Violin, Head of Strings and Chamber Music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 2018. She made her recital debut at Wigmore Hall in 2011 supported by the Maisie Lewis Young Artists’ Fund Award. As a recitalist and chamber musician, she has performed at Zermatt Festival, Switzerland; Bolzano Festival, Italy; Grafenegg Festival, Austria; Cheltenham Festival, UK; and the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove. She is Concertmaster of the Irish National Opera Orchestra and has appeared as Guest Concertmaster of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, Balkan Chamber Orchestra, and the Human Rights Orchestra in Lucerne amongst others. Previous positions include Concertmaster of the European Union Youth Orchestra and Principal First Violin of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Sarah Sew is Artistic Director of the RIAM’s annual chamber music festival, ChamberFest Dublin and is director of its boundary-pushing mixed instrumental group, Ensemble Interforma. Born in London, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Royal Academy of Music, London studying with Maurice Hasson and Howard Davis. She completed postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Friedemann Eichhorn. In 2018, Sarah Sew was awarded Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. She plays a Gennaro Gagliano violin c.1760.