Sarah Hicks
Principal Conductor of Pops and Presentations for the Minnesota Orchestra
and Staff Conductor at the Curtis Institute of Music
Sarah Hicks born 1973 in Tokyo, Japan but grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hicks received her BA magna cum laude from Harvard University in composition and Artist’s Degree in conducting from Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Otto-Werner Mueller. She has received several prizes including the Thomas Hoopes Prize for composition and the Doris Cohen Levy Prize for conducting from Harvard University, and she was the recipient of the Helen F. Whitaker Fund Scholarship and a Presser Award during her time at Curtis.
Since finishing her education her conducting career has taken off she’s held positions with the North Carolina Symphony, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Florida Philharmonic, Philadelphia Singers, Philadelphia Orchestra, Hawaii Summer Symphony, and Verbier Festival Orchestra. She has an even more extensive list of orchestra’s where she’s been a guest conductor for Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Florida Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Prime Philharmonic (Seoul, Korea), East Slovak State Opera Theatre, New National Theatre Tokyo, and the Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice.