"She is a virtuosic yet naturally fluid player who somehow manages to coax a liquid sound from the piano even when battering the keys and raising hell."

-Mark Grant, New Music Connoisseur

"that redheaded new-music force of nature"

-Mickey Butts, San Francisco Classical Voice

"A reigning diva of avant-garde pianism."

-Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle

"Cahill, a striking East Bay redhead who attracts visual as well as auditory interest in her frequent recitals, is a sparkplug who leads the league in projecting modern music. She also annotates an excellent program of recordings and composer interviews in her Sunday-night radio stints (KALW, 91.7 FM)."

-Paul Hertelendy, ArtsSF.com

Media Clips VIDEO: Concert of Mamoru Fujiedo's Patterns of Plants in Tokyo Ornstein's Morning in the Woods at Other Minds 8 Podcast for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sarah performs Morton Feldman's Piano Piece (For Philip Guston) from 1963, with an introduction by Bill Berkson Sarah talks with Meredith Monk and Bjork VIDEO: a clip about Frederic Rzewski's piano music

In 2008, Sarah will be working on a long-term project which involves commissioning eighteen composers to write new works envisioning peace. This project is titled A Sweeter Music, after this quote from Dr. Martin Luther King’s Nobel Lecture: "We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war." The composers are Meredith Monk, Frederic Rzewski, Terry Riley, Yoko Ono, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Pauline Oliveros, Peter Garland, Kyle Gann, Paul Dresher, Carl Stone, Ingram Marshall, Jerome Kitzke, Phil Kline, Mamoru Fujieda, Larry Polansky, Michael Byron, The Residents, and Preben Antonsen. Sarah will premiere a group of these new pieces in the Fall of 2008, and take them on tour throughout the U.S. and abroad. For calendar, please click here.