Sarah Beth Overcash, violin

Violinist Sarah Beth Overcash was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She started taking violin lessons when she was four years old from Ray Cheng, who also made her violin. She has recently completed her Master’s degree in violin performance at the University of Southern California, where she studied with Glenn Dicterow. While at USC, Sarah Beth Overcash was a member of the Thornton Edge Ensemble. During her undergraduate studies, she was awarded the Louis and Annette Kaufman Music Achievement Award in violin from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studied with David Bowlin. At Oberlin, she served as a co-founder and co-chair of the Oberlin Students for Gender Inclusivity in Music’s board of directors. In 2019, she was honoured to be part of the OSGIM Phlox Ensemble project. This project included works by trans, female, and nonbinary-identifying composers. In the fall of 2020, she performed in multiple recordings as a member of the Contemporary Music Ensemble at Oberlin Conservatory. She was also a member of the Sacred Heart Concert series, founded by her colleague Johnum Palado, while she was working toward her Bachelor’s degree. Sarah Beth Overcash has attended several music festivals including the Prizm Chamber Music Festival, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Colorado College Music Festival, Spoleto Music Festival (Charleston, South Carolina, USA), the Music Academy of the West, and the Lucerne Festival Academy, among others. She has recently played in projects with the Santa Barbara Symphony, Ensemble Modern, and Ensemble Reflektor. In her free time, Sarah Beth Overcash enjoys improvising with friends as well as traveling and cooking.

The scholarship of Sarah Beth Overcash is funded by the GVL, Crespo Foundation and others.