Sarah Goldfeather

Violin and Songwriting

Sarah Goldfeather is a composer-performer who lives in Jersey City. She has an active career as a violinist and singer, including the violin chair in both the Tony Award-winning and Grammy-nominated Broadway production of Oklahoma! and the off-Broadway production of The Coast Starlight at Lincoln Center Theater. She has been a featured performer at The NYU International Conference of the Arts in Berlin, the AMEE Festival in Madrid and Valencia, TEDxMET at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The WildShore Festival, The Present Music Festival, The Johnstone Fund for New Music, and more. 

Sarah collaborates with Mike Tierney in their experimental pop band, Goldfeather. Goldfeather’s music has been described as “giddy, cute, vulnerable, and delightful” (I Care If You Listen) with songs that are “as crazy as they are catchy... a three minute rush of conflicting emotions over sonic exploration... sounds from one universe seem to be leaking into another" (New Sounds). Goldfeather has been featured on New Sounds with John Schafer (WQXR) and The Homebaked Series at the Brooklyn Public Library. In addition, Sarah is the co-founder and artistic director of the new music ensemble Exceptet, an “eclectic” and “quirky” (New Yorker) seven-piece new music ensemble that commissions new works from emerging composers 

As a composer, Sarah has written works that include commissions from pianist Timo Andres, ETHEL quartet, Contemporaneous, Alkemie, Warp Trio, Exceptet, and more. She received a 2023 Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Sarah is an accomplished violin instructor who obtained her Master’s in Violin from NYU-Steinhardt in 2015 and has over 15 years of teaching experience. In addition to her robust private studio, Sarah is currently on faculty at the Special Music School and has previously worked for the Youth Orchestra of St. Lukes, the Brooklyn Waldorf School, NYU-Steinhardt, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and more. Sarah also moonlights as an English Professor in the Writing Program at Rutgers University-Newark.