SABINA THATCHER has been appointed associate principal viola of the Minnesota Orchestra, effective with the start of the 2019-20 season. From 1989 until 2012, Thatcher was the principal viola of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, where she performed as a soloist numerous times, and was also a member of the Rosalyra String Quartet, with which she made several recordings. Thatcher was an artist-faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and School from 1998 to 2016, and she has been an artist and teacher at the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Georgia. She was a finalist in the Naumberg International Viola Competition and has performed solo recitals in the Twin Cities and nationally. She graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a performer’s certificate, and studied at the Juilliard School. She toured with the Brandenburg Ensemble under the direction of Alexander Schneider and was a prizewinner in the Hudson Valley Competition. Thatcher currently teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul and is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota.
Posted August 21, 2019
