Sabina Thatcher, Principal Violist, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Sabina Thatcher began her tenure in 1989 as principal violist of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been a soloist with the SPCO on numerous occasions, performing a wide variety of repertoire, including Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, John Harbison’s Viola Concerto, and Lachrymae by Benjamin Britten. An active chamber musician as well, Thatcher is a member of the Rosalyra String Quartet, which made its New York debut in 1996 and has released an album of Bartók and Beethoven quartets on the Boston Records label. In 2000, Rosalyra received a McKnight Artist Fellowship that facilitated a second recording featuring two Shostakovich quartets. Thatcher is a faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and School, a Distinguished Artist of the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, and has performed in festivals throughout the United States and abroad, including the Spoleto Festival and the Mozart Festival in Lille, France. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and studied further with Lillian Fuchs at The Juilliard School.

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