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A curiosity in the cultural background behind the music she plays led Sarah Abigael Stone to baroque cello and viola da gamba. She makes music around the country with Repast Baroque, New York Baroque Incorporated, Seraphic Fire, Apollo’s Fire, The Sebastians, Washington National Cathedral, The Thirteen, and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. Sarah is Executive Director of the early music ensemble Repast Baroque, programming their 25/26 season around literary themes including the genres of Myth, Ghost Stories, Science Fiction in collaboration with new music Ensemble Ipse, Classics, and Adventure.

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"The show is not over... Questlove keeps spinning into the early morning. Sir Patrick Stewart has been reading a Shakespeare sonnet everyday. Sarah Stone, who plays cello and viola da gamba, has stuck to her “Bach Everyday” performances from her apartment in New York City. Since March 19, she’s done a Bach Chorale each day." (Geoff Edgers, The Washington Post, June 10, 2020). Recording everyday for over a year, Everyday Bach includes chorales from cantata in order of BWVs, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, Art of the Fugue, and the B Minor Mass. Everyday Bach was featured in the Washington Post, The Greene Space (WNYC), and Early Music America, and can be found on Tiktok and Youtube.

Sarah facilitates Bitterroot Baroque, a community baroque orchestra in rural Hamilton, Montana, helping bring in period ensembles and musicians to perform, coach chamber music, and lead early music workshops for members of the Bitterroot Baroque Orchestra since 2015. Through a Circuit Rider Grant from the Viola da Gamba Society of America for 2025, she has added in viol playdates, which helps local musicians getting started on viol and hosts regular consort readings. 

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Sarah holds a Masters in Historical Performance from the Juilliard School, a Masters from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelors of Music from Rice University. She has studied with Mara Finkelstein, Norman Fischer, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Elizabeth Reed, Sarah Cunningham, and Phoebe Carrai. She loves gardening, animation, long walks, deep-dives into digitized collections, and her cats Nyx and Erebus.