The Music Academy of the West | with Sarah Willis

Sarah Willis spends a day at the beautiful and inspiring Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. USA, where every summer, the halls (and the beach!) are filled with music played by talented young musicians from all over the world.

Sarah Willis is a British-American French horn player. In 2001, she joined the Berlin Philharmonic, becoming the first female member of its brass section.

She was born in Maryland, USA and grew up in Tokyo, Boston, Moscow and London. At age 14 she started playing French horn and then attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department in London, UK. She studied full-time at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK.
In 1991, she moved to Berlin, where she became Second Horn in the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim.

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