IBO Musicians

Violinist Sarah Cranor is passionate about the vibrant sonic possibilities found in sharing both historical and contemporary music with live audiences.  Sarah is a part of Chaski Quartet, bringing music to incarcerated individuals in multiple Colorado Department of Corrections facilities, as well as public concerts across Colorado and New Mexico.  Sarah can be heard with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Sphere Ensemble, Omaha Symphony, and with Duo Anthracite.  Sarah served as acting Concertmaster / Principal Second Violin with the West Texas Symphony for four seasons, was a member of the Permian Basin String Quartet, and guest concertmaster of the Bloomington and Lafayette Symphony Orchestras and the Bach Series at Duke University. 

She directs Tonos del Sur: a historically-informed ensemble which explores the intersection of European music with the colonization of the Americas, whose aim is to bring music of lesser-known, anonymous, and indigenous composers, and music in indigenous languages to today’s audiences.  Tonos’s recent collaborations include with scholars Paul Feller and Cesar Favila, for modern premieres of Chilean villancicos from the Catedral Metropolitana archive at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Latin American Music Festival, and modern premieres of villancicos of from manuscripts by Santisima Trinidad Convent nuns, and programs centered around local depictions of the Virgin Mary across the Midwest. 

Sarah holds a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music; her doctoral research focuses on the music of Santiago Billoni, chapelmaster at the Durango Cathedral, Mexico, from 1749-1756.  Sarah has presented guest lectures at EAFIT in Colombia, the UNAM in Mexico, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and at Indiana University. Sarah is the director of the Bloomington Early Music Immersion, a middle-school-aged historical performance experience for modern string players through the Bloomington Early Music Festival.

Sarah runs ultra-marathons, and always looks forward to exploring new trails!