Since his debut in Carnegie Hall with Eastman Rising Stars in 2001, Dr. Jason Sah has enjoyed an international career as a music educator and concert violist. He has appeared in concert throughout Latin America and Europe, with such groups as the Eastman Broadband and Salzburg Camerata, and has performed in the Cervantino, Skaneateles and Chihuahua International Festivals.
He is formerly Professor of Violin and Chair of Chamber Music at the Juan N. Corpas Universitaria in Bogota, Colombia, and has served as a Visiting String Artist at St. Mary’s University, MN, and the Conservatorio Superior de Quito, Ecuador. In past summers, he has served as artist faculty at the Montecito, Beverly Hills, and A Tempo International Music Festivals, and at the Sequoia, Point Counterpoint, and St. Mary’s University Chamber Music Festivals. He holds performance degrees on both violin and viola from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California, and he is a graduate of the Doctor of Musical Arts and Arts Leadership Programs of the Eastman School of Music. He has studied with renowned violinists and violists Oleh Krysa, Zvi Zeitlin, George Taylor, Donald McInnes, and Tomas Riebl, as well as chamber music with the Cleveland Quartet.
In recent years, Dr. Sah has worked in K-12 settings throughout the US and India. He has a special affinity for working with children that started over 20 years ago in South Central Los Angeles. He later collaborated extensively with the Seattle Chamber Music Society and Seattle Youth Symphony in helping to build string programs in the Greater Seattle Public School Systems. He has also taught alongside instructors from El Sistema Venezuela and Tocar y Luchar of Colombia. He has served as Director of the String Academy of the Tuacahn High School for the Performing Arts, UT, Director of Orchestras and General Music at El Camino Real Academy, NM and Director of Orchestras and Upper String Specialist at Woodstock School, India. In demand as a lecturer and workshop presenter, he has spoken on such classroom string pedagogy topics as assessment, empowerment, equal access, and practice routines.
Currently, he is pursuing work as a 2021 Global Leaders Program Cohort, a highly selective organization that works with a handful of international music educators to create social change through music. He works alongside his wife, violist and music educator Larissa Brown, in the Norwalk Public Schools, CT. He has two sons, Micah and Gabriel.