Sarah Gibson

American pianist and composer Sarah Gibson was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina on 21 May 1986 and she grew up in Roswell, Georgia, becoming interested in music when very young and studying piano from the age of seven. She studied at Indiana University School of Music and at the University of Southern California.

She received a series of commissions and produced works such as to the world, soak stain and warp & weft. Her music has been performed by top orchestras in Europe and in the USA and she similarly performed as a pianist across the USA and Europe. Based in Los Angeles, she was a core artist of Piano Spheres, and one half of the piano duo Hocket with Thomas Kotcheff.

Sarah Gibson died from colon cancer at her home in Los Angeles on 14 July 2024, aged thirty-eight.

 

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