Biography

Canadian violinist Sadie Fields leads an active performing career as soloist and chamber musician. Since making her concerto debut at age fourteen under conductor Victor Feldbrill, Sadie has performed as soloist with orchestral across North America, the UK, and continental Europe. In recital, Sadie has been broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and by Radio New Zealand, and has performed for the Prince of Wales, the last Pope John Paul II, and heads of state in Canada and Germany. Sadie has been invited to perform at festivals in Canada, USA, Mexico, UK, Austria, Israel, and Sweden, and she has collaborated with many distinguished musicians, including Ivry Gitlis.

Sadie won the Lorna Viol Prize for the most outstanding overseas musician at the 2010 Royal Overseas League Music Competition, London, and was also awarded the Edith Phipps Prize for the most outstanding Canadian. Sadie has won prizes at a number of other international competitions, including the Vaclav Huml International Violin Competition (Croatia, 2009), and the Brahms International Music Competition (Austria, 2008), and has won awards from the Hattori Foundation, the English Speaking Union, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, and Musicians' Benevolent Fund, the Leverhulme Trust, the Zochonis Charitable Trust, the Pidem Fund, the Stephen Bell Trust, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music. 

Sadie graduated with First Class Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where she won a full scholarship to study with Prof. Yair Kless. Sadie has recently completed her Masters degree with Prof. Gyorgy Pauk at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she was awarded the Greenwich Award, the Howard Davis Award, and the Marjorie Hayward Award for Violin for earning the highest mark at the Royal Academy. Sadie is now pursuing doctoral studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is supervised by Gyorgy Pauk and Dr. Neil Heyde. She plays on a Filius Andrea Guarneri of 1705, kindly on loan from the Royal Academy of Music.