Bio : Artists

Sarah Cote : Viola

Sarah Cote has been on the faculties of Belmont University in Nashville and Middle Tennessee State University since 2003. Currently she performs with the Nashville Symphony, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and the Alabama Symphony. She is principal viola of the Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra. She performs with the Stones River Chamber Players, the Belmont Camerata, and the Belle Meade Baroque. Ms. Cote was a member of the San Antonio Symphony for sixteen years. In San Antonio, she was a frequent chamber music performer and a teacher and was on the steering committee for the Music Advancement Program, a music education program for inner city middle school students. Ms. Cote has been on the faculty of Eastern Music Festival since 1995, spending two of those summers as acting assistant principal of the Eastern Festival Orchestra. Additionally, she has performed as a member of EMF?s chamber ensembles. She has also performed at the Garth Newell, Fontana, and Blowing Rock chamber festivals and with the Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society. Ms. Cote earned bachelor?s and master?s degrees from Indiana University, where she studied with Yuval Yaron and Mimi Zweig. She spent a sabbatical year at Oberlin University, where she studied with Jeffrey Irvine and Lynne Ramsay-Irvine. She has also studied with Patricia McCarty, Burton Kaplan, and Karen Tuttle. Ms. Cote studied Baroque viola/violin with Simon Standage and Marilyn MacDonald. She also has done extensive pedagogy studies with Mimi Zweig and Carol Dallinger.