Sarah Curro graduated in 1994 from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, where she was awarded the Conservatorium Medal for Excellence. In 1997, she won the Dorcas McLean Travelling Scholarship for Violinists, which led her to study and later teach at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. From 1999 to 2002, she was a member of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
In Australia, Sarah has performed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Queensland Philharmonic and Symphony orchestras, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria, and she is currently a full-time member of the MSO.
Beyond traditional violinist roles as a performer and educator, Sarah’s ventures focus on the discovery, purchase and promotion of new, mostly local, creations across various art forms, particularly music. In recent years she has commissioned a series of 40 solo violin pieces, VOLUME, intended to showcase the unique semi-acoustic instruments of Melbourne’s Spur Violins. In addition to her own performances of these pieces, presenting them in modern venues to an ever-widening audience, their publication as The VOLUME Collection – a COVID project – has enabled more adventurous violinists to explore the exciting sound worlds of contemporary music.
