Pittsburgh-based flutist Sarah Steranka enjoys a multifaceted career as a recitalist, chamber musician, and champion of new music. Since making her solo debut with the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic at the age of nineteen, she has been featured in concert throughout the US and worldwide. Additionally, she has been named a finalist and prizewinner in many national and international competitions, including the International Low Flutes Festival’s Alto Flute Competition and the Flute New Music Consortium’s Flute Artist Competition.

​Sarah is dedicated to exploring the innovative work of living composers and pushing the boundaries of flute performance. Recent additions to her repertoire include world premieres by Ramin Akhavijou, Marilyn Shrude, Elizabeth Brown, Zvonimir Nagy, and Nancy Galbraith. Sarah has appeared in Music on the Edge’s Beyond Microtonal Music Festival, The Pittsburgh Festival of New Music, and The Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project’s Re:Sound festival. Her recordings of many of these commissions have been published by Naxos.  

Sarah is the second flutist of the Westmoreland Symphony and is a core member of the nationally recognized new music ensembles Kamratōn and Alia Musica. 
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As an educator, she maintains faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University, the Pittsburgh Flute Academy, and I AM Music Academy. She has also appeared as a guest artist and lecturer at the Woodlands Foundation, West Virginia University’s International Flute Symposium, and the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University.

Sarah Steranka currently pursues a master's degree at Duquesne University where she studies with Jennifer Steele and performs with the Triano Woodwind Quintet under the artistic guidance of James Gorton. She earned a B.F.A. at Carnegie Mellon University where her principal teachers were Alberto Almarza and Jeanne Baxtresser.