Sarah Plum has had a long and fruitful career as a teacher of violin and viola to all ages and levels of students from beginners to graduate students. She recently moved her family to Evanston to focus on teaching pre-college students and create young musicians who love playing and are ready to achieve!

Plum is on the faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago and teaches privately at her home in Evanston. She is eager to take on new students and build a studio of young talent. You can contact her directly at sarahantoniaplum@gmail.com

Her teaching specialties include:

• Competition and audition preparation 

• Preparing orchestral excerpts for auditions and auditions for summer programs

• Recording preparation – her experience making solo and orchestral recordings means she is adept at guiding students through the process

• Starting young players – as a college professor Plum taught violin pedagogy and trained teachers.  She has developed her own method of starting players using a large variety of repertoire (not just Suzuki) with a focus on right hand flexibility. 

• Intermediate players – Plum excels at teaching students who are just learning to shift, vibrate and play 3 octave scales.  She has developed exercises and strategies to prepare students for advanced repertoire.  

• Teaching viola to violinists – Plum has taught dozens of violin students to play viola either to supplement their violin playing (necessary in today's professional music world) or to make a permanent shift.

Plum had the good fortune to study with the great pedagogues of her day – Lyman Bodman, David Cerone, Dorothy Delay, Szymon Goldberg and Joyce Robbins. She relishes her role in passing on the tradition she learned from these artist teachers to a new generation.