Sarah Elizabeth Haines
Published Works
Sarah Elizabeth Haines is a violist, violinist, vocalist, composer, guitarist and performer who lives in New York City.
Sarah is first and foremost a proponent of “new” music in many different various and iterations, and is joyful and grateful to make a career almost entirely out of working on and creating music that exists in the world as we know it today. Most recently, she was seen touring the US, playing violin and viola for the national tour of hit musical Hamilton. Other bands of varying genre with whom she performs include the contemporary classical ensemble Contemporaneous, Americana band Bellehouse, folk rock group Emanuel and the Fear, and glam cabaret revue Kenyon Phillips and the Ladies in Waiting. She has done string arrangements for various singer-songwriters in NYC including Mackenzie Shivers and Nikkie Macleod. Sarah also made her solo debut with the Chelsea Symphony premiering Michael Boyman's Viola Concerto in 2017.
Pretending to Sleep, her first record of original music under her own name was released November 8th, 2019. Most of the songs on the album were written and given final touches while on the road, and a few of the songs utilize the lush sounds of the string quartet with whom she toured on Hamilton. She released an ambient EP of string and vocal improvisations in March entitled Remember to Breathe, and she is currently working on a second full length album.
Sarah has also toured with Les Miserables, and Todd Almond’s Kansas City Choir Boy, originated at Beth Morrison Project’s PROTOTYPE Festival, and has worked on Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (sub, viola), Beardo (Violin), Iow@ (Viola), and Hadestown (2014 workshop, Fate/viola).