Sarah Brady

Sarah Brady joined the Conservatory in 2006 and is an associate professor of flute and contemporary music.

Called “enchanting” by the Boston Globe, Grammy Award–winning flutist Sarah Brady is sought after across the country as a soloist, chamber musician, and master teacher. An avid promoter of new music, she has premiered and recorded new music from many of today’s top composers. As a recording artist, her solo, chamber, and over 100 orchestral recordings can be heard on the New Focus, Albany, Naxos, Oxingale, Cantaloupe and BMOP/Sound music labels.

Principal flute with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera, Brady can also be heard performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, and Boston Lyric Opera. As a chamber musician, she has been described as “clairvoyantly sensitive” (New Music Connoisseur). She is a member of Collage New Music as well as the Radius Ensemble, and has collaborated with the Fromm Players at Harvard, the Firebird Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, the Talea Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, Sound Icon, NotaRiotous, and the Cortona Collective.

In competition, she was awarded second place in the National Flute Association 2006 Young Artist Competition and was a two-time second place winner in the Pappoutsakis Flute Competition. A board member of the International Foundation for Contemporary Music, Brady has served as the chair of the National Flute Association’s New Music Advisory Committee and as the commissions coordinator. A graduate of the University of Connecticut on full-tuition scholarship, Brady received a Masters of Music as well as an Artist Diploma from the Longy School of Music, where she was a student of Robert Willoughby.

Professional Awards and Recognitions

• Grammy Award for Best Opera Performance with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, principal flute, 2020
• Grammy nomination for Anthony Davis: X Life and Times of Malcolm X, 2023
• Grammy nomination for Gail Kubik: Symphony Concertante, 2022
• Grammy nomination for Norman Dello Joio: Trial at Rouen, 2020
• Grammy nomination for Andrew Norman: Play, 2016
• Grammy nomination for Steve Mackey: Dreamhouse, 2011

Career Highlights

• Concerto soloist with Boston Modern Orchestra Project for Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Elegie for Flute, 2022
• Boston Pops Japan tour, 2023
• Boston Pops performances with Nas, Cynthia Erivo, Bernadette Peters, Boyz 2 Men, and Seth McFarlane, 2023–2025