Dr. Sara Bennett Wolfe
Dr. Sara Bennett Wolfe is the director of SBW Cello Studio in Norwalk and Trumbull CT. She holds music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University, Ithaca College, and Rutgers University. Collaborations include the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Thales Piano Trio, Mimesis Ensemble, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Binghamton Philharmonic, and positions as Principal Cellist with the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra and Opera in the Ozarks. In demand as a clinician, Sara has taught at the Belize, Ithaca, Intermountain, Westchester, and Ozark Suzuki Institutes, as well as high school and collegiate masterclasses and workshops. Sara’s primary teachers include Elizabeth Loughran, Jodi Beder, Emilio Colón, Elizabeth Simkin, Merry Peckham, and Jonathan Spitz; she has completed Suzuki teacher training with Pam Devenport, Melissa Kraut, Beth Cantrell, Heather Hadley, Alice Vierra, Mark Mutter, and Carrie Reuning-Hummel. Sara believes deeply in the power of music education to teach students about sensitivity, self-discipline, and perseverance. She enjoys being an integral part of her students’ “village,” and is thrilled to witness each small step as she and their parents guide them towards growing into Dr. Suzuki’s image of “noble human beings.”