
Marisela Sager, flutist
A native of Southern California, Marisela Sager
is currently the Assistant Principal flutist with theCleveland
Orchestra. Previously she held the same position with the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She also served as
rotating principal flutist with the New World Symphony in
Miami Beach, Florida. Ms. Sager loves playing in the orchestral
setting but also enjoys performing as a soloist and chamber
musician throughout the country.
Marisela Sager has played in orchestras throughout
the United States, Mexico, and Europe with ensembles such as the
Pittsburg Symphony, the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, the
Orquesta Sinfonica UANL (Monterrey, Mexico), and the Florida
West Coast Symphony. She has collaborated with conductors
including: Franz Welser-Most, Michael Tilson Thomas, Larry
Rachleff, Seigi Ozawa, Hans Graf, Roberto Abbado, Sir Neville
Mariner, Zdenek Macal, and Sir Collin Davis.
Also active as a soloist and chamber musician, Ms.
Sager has received first prize in the San Diego Flute Guild
Young Artist and piccolo competitions, was a two-year award
winner in the Musical Merit Foundation Competition, and won the
2000 Frank Bowen Young Artist competition. Her chamber music
career includes many noted performances with artists such as
flutist Paula Robison, violinist Cho-Liang Lin, renowned pipa
player Wu-Man, and Academy Award winning composer, Tan Dun. Ms.
Sager was featured in repeated performances with Summerfest La
Jolla in California where she was featured in a broadcast on
National Public Radio’s "Performance Today". As a member of the
wind quintet CO5 made up of members of the Cleveland Orchestra
she was invited by the US Embassy in Serbia to play and teach in
Belgrade. Marisela Sager has appeared as soloist with the
Cleveland Orchestra, the New Mexico Symphony, the New World
Symphony, and the San Diego State Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to her extensive performance experience,
Marisela Sager enjoys and has been recognized as an excellent
music educator. She has given masterclasses for "El Sistema" in
Caracas, Venezuela, at Miami University, Kent State University,
and Baldwin Wallace College as well as reaching young children
through the Cleveland Orchestra’s Rainbow Concert series and
Learning through Music program. She actively participated as a
leader in the New World Symphony’s community outreach program as
well as working with VITAS, an organization that sends
volunteers to visit and play music for patients in nursing homes
and hospitals.
Ms. Sager holds a Master of Music from Rice
University and a Bachelor of Music from San Diego State
University, where her teachers included Leone Buyse and Claude
Monteux, respectively.
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