Pianist Sara McDaniel is known throughout the western region as a performer, teacher, clinician, and adjudicator. Much of her work has been done through Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and affiliates, Colorado State Music Teachers and Pikes Peak Music Teachers Associations. Her performance specialty is chamber music. She collaborates regularly with musicians of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and faculty of Colorado colleges. She has been a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and the Pikes Peak Philharmonic.

She has given piano pedagogy workshops and master classes throughout Colorado and many other states. Teaching comprises a major part of her career, both in an independent studio and on the faculty at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak Community College. In 2001, she was Colorado’s first nominee for Music Teachers National Association’s Teacher of the Year. Ms. McDaniel is a graduate of Southern Colorado State College (now CSU Pueblo) and received her masters degree from University of Hawaii. We are very pleased to have Sara McDaniel in her first performance with Classically Alive.