Sandra Rivers

Professor of Collaborative Studies

College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
P0 Box 210077
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0077
telephone: 5l3-556-9552
fax: 513-556-2698
Sandra.Rivers@uc.edu

Sandra Rivers has concertized throughout the world, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal, Russia, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and extensively across the United States.

Ms Rivers has appeared at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Tanglewood, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Aspen, the Kennedy Center, and on the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center. She has worked with such noted conductors as Arthur Fiedler, Anshel Brusilow, Jean Morel, Isaiah Jackson, Michael Morgan and Keith Lockhart.

In addition to her solo career, for the past ten years Ms. Rivers has become widely known for her concert partnerships with many of the world's leading soloists including Itzhak Perlman, Kathleen Battle, Kyung-Wha Chung, Anne Akiko Myers, Elmar Oliveira, Cho-Liang Lin, Joshua Bell and Sarah Chang among others. She performs regularly with Sarah Chang, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg among others.

While at the Juilliard School studying with Sascha Gorodnitzki, Ms. Rivers began to incorporate the art of chamber music and partnering with other artists. In 1978, she was awarded the Best Accompanist Prize at the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition, and shortly after she was appointed the official accompanist for the Naumburg International Violin Competition, the Mae Whitaker International Competition, the Vianna da Motta International Violin Competition and the Golden Music Festival in Lisbon.
Her collaborations with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Sarah Chang have twice taken her onto the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.

Ms. Rivers is a Steinway Artist and has recorded for RCA, EMI, CBS and Teldec. She has been a member of the accompanying faculty of the College-Conservatory of Music since 1982.