Sarah Pickett
TOP CLAW RECIPIENT
Biography
Dr. Sarah Pickett is a musicologist and violinist who has been teaching at GGC since 2019. Her work explores the history of the violin both during the Industrial Revolution and in the 21st century, as well as the role of music in human cognition.
Education
- Doctorate – musicology – Florida State University
- Master's – musicology – Florida State University
- Bachelor's – music – Austin College
Academic Interests
- Music history and appreciation
- Music cognition
- Ecomusicology
- Organology
- Popular music studies
- Early music performance
- Violin / viola da Gamba / banjo performance
Publications
- "Environmental Sustainability in U.S. Violin Making." Music, Sound, and Climate Justice Conversations, New Orleans, AMS-SEM-SMT conference, November 2022
- "3-D Printed Violins: How Can We Make Music Sustainably?" Readings, Writings and All That Jazz Series, Georgia Gwinnett College, Fall 2019
- “Exploring Alternative Materials and Processes in Violin Making.” Ex-Centric Music Studies, Harvard University, 2018
- “Innovations in Nineteenth-Century Violin Making.” The Acoustical Society of America, 2015
- “Material Improvisation in Violin Making.” Interdisciplinary Performance Symposium, 2015
- “The Violin: History, Construction, and Acoustics.” FSU Department of Interior Design Third Annual Charrette, 2015
- “Grit and Grace: Vincent Persichetti’s Modern Traditionalism.” FSU Organ Society Pre-Concert Lecture, 2015
- “Experimental Violins: The Politics of Wood and Music Making in the Twenty-First Century.” City University of New York, 2015
- “‘What is the Feminine of Stradivari?’: Carleen Hutchins and a New Model for Women’s Biography.” The Society for American Music, 2015
- “Recent Innovations in American Violin Making.” The Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium, 2014
- “Intersections of Music and Science in the Experimental Violins of Chanot and Vuillaume.” The American Musical Instrument Society, 2013
- “Real and Imagined Identities in an ‘Improvisation’ on Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins.” The American Musicological Society Southern Chapter, 2013