Sarah Basel to perform as Principal Percussionist with Evanston Symphony Orchestra
May 3, 2011 by Sarah
Filed under General Percussion, Performances, Sarah's Blog
On May 8, 2011 Sarah Basel will perform as the principal percussionist with the Evanston Symphony Orchestra. Sarah will be filling in for the regular principal percussionist, Brian Kabot. This concert is filled with “blockbuster percussion hits” including Appalachian Spring, Rhapsody in Blue (with piano soloist Lawrence Eckerling), Candide Overture and Merry Mount [...]
Sarah Basel to perform with Kenosha Symphony
May 3, 2011 by Sarah
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On May 7, 2011, Sarah Basel will be performing with the Kenosha Symphony:
May 7, 2011 8:00 p.m. “A Night at the Opera” Concert
Strauss Don Juan Mozart Overture to Don Giovani Borodin Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Featuring Christian Reinert, tenor and the Bradford and Tremper High School Choruses
Favorite romantic arias by tenor, Christian Reinert, and popular [...]
Sarah Basel will be performing with the Kenosha Symphony Tonight!
May 8, 2010 by Sarah
Filed under General Percussion, Performances, Sarah's Blog
will be performing with the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra tonight!
The program is:
“Russian Nights”
Stravinsky Suite No. 2
Glazunov Violin Concerto (Jeanyi Kim, Violin)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
You can find information at http://www.kenoshasymphony.org/
The Southwest Michigan Symphony will be on the Radio TONIGHT at 6:00 pm ET!
April 11, 2010 by Sarah
Filed under General Percussion, Orchestral Percussion, Performances, Sarah's Blog
Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchesra’s performance of the March 20 program “American Creativity” will be broadcast on WAUS, 90.7 FM ON SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 AT 6PM (Michigan time).
If you are out of broadcast range of WAUS, you can also listen online at www.waus.org.
This was a fun concert that I participated in a few weeks ago. [...]
Sarah Basel will be performing the percussion parts for Little Women with the Artists of Concordia University
April 5, 2010 by Sarah
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Sarah Basel, Rhapsody Percussion owner, will be performing in the percussion parts for Little Women…
Sarah Basel, Rhapsody Percussion Owner will be in London…
March 26, 2010 by Sarah
Filed under Auditions/Jobs, General Percussion, Rhapsody Percussion News, Sarah's Blog
Dear Customers, I will be taking a trip to London between March 27 and April 4. Since I take care of 95% of all …
Sarah Basel will be performing with Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra this weekend.
March 19, 2010 by Sarah
Filed under General Percussion, Performances, Sarah's Blog
Rhapsody Percussion owner, Sarah Basel will be performing with the Southwest Symphony Orchestra in Benton Harbor, Michigan
Rhapsody Percussion owner to star in Independent Film “Chi-Town Pulse”
March 5, 2010 by Sarah
Filed under General Percussion, Performances, Rhapsody Percussion News, Sarah's Blog
Sarah Basel is starring in Chi-Town Blues; a short independent film created by Doug Operzedek and www.independentthinking.us.
Chi-Town Pulse is a short, fictional story that follows the lives of two characters and their personal struggles. John, a well-dressed, traveler with a love of blues music, dancing, women and booze, meets Sarah, a Chicago girl who has [...]
Performance Opportunities on E-Bay???
November 19, 2009 by Sarah
Filed under Auditions/Jobs, General Percussion, Orchestral Percussion, Orchestral Percussion Auditions, Sarah's Blog
I was browsing the web when I came across this opportunity on eBay…
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is …
Performing the xylophone part for The Mother Goose Suite by M. Ravel
October 27, 2009 by Sarah
Filed under General Percussion, Orchestral Percussion, Performances, Sarah's Blog, Techniques
The other day I performed the xylophone part in movement III. Laidernonette from The Mother Goose Suite by M. Ravel. The piece is fairly straight-forward. I’ve prepared it for auditions in the past but haven’t performed it with an orchestra until this concert. The two sections to be concerned about are at rehearsal #7 to [...]
Sarah Basel is a professional percussionist in the Chicagoland area. She has a masters in percussion performance from San Francisco Conservatory where she studied with Jack Van Geem (principal of San Francisco Symphony). She also received a Bachelor of Music Education which enabled her to study with Ed Harrison (principal timpanist of Lyric Opera of Chicago) from Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois. Sarah has been both a performer and a music educator for the past 16 years.