Sarah Crocker Vonsattel has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 2008, following tenures in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony. A founding member of the Verklärte Quartet (Grand Prize winners at the 2003 Fischoff Competition), Ms. Crocker has appeared with the iO string quartet, and the Talea Ensemble, and has recorded two discs for the Bridge Records label. She has a Masters from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Ronald Copes and Naoko Tanaka. She plays a 1991 Curtin violin.