ADERHOLDT, Sarah

Sarah Aderholdt, a native of North Carolina, received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in music from the University of North Carolina and her PhD from the University of Minnesota. She also studied at the Swiss Center for Computer Music. A freelance composer for many years in Minnesota, where she was active in the Minnesota Composers Forum, Ms. Aderholdt was recently an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts outside San Francisco. She now resides near Washington, D.C. Her works have been performed throughout the USA and in Switzerland, Germany, and Poland. Writing primarily chamber music, Aderholdt's work often combines acoustic instruments with amplified voices, nature sounds, and electronically produced sounds.