Philadelphia-based conductor Sarah Bowe is a freelance choral specialist working in performance, pedagogy, and administration. As a nationally active guest artist, clinician, and presenter, she is sought after for her engaging programming and cultivation of connected, joyful artistry. Bowe's choral appointments have included faculty roles at Queens College (CUNY), Cornell University, and Central Connecticut State University, as well as interim work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and positions in music ministry and secondary music education. In addition to regular festival appearances along the East Coast, she has collaborated with choirs and educators across the Northeast and South through workshops and guest lectures, and has presented her research and teaching at conferences with the American Choral Directors Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and the National Collegiate Choral Organization.

Also an active soprano, Bowe has performed with ensembles such as Convoco, The Princeton Singers, Vox Lusciniae, Viatores Mundi, Vermont Chamber Artists, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, among others, alongside frequent local and regional church engagements. She is a proud alumna and former administrator of Seraphic Fire’s Professional Choral Institute at Aspen Music Festival and School.

Bowe maintains a private teaching studio specializing in musicianship and conducting, manages operations for Wildflower Composers and composer Melissa Dunphy’s Mormolyke Press, and serves on the board for Convoco. She holds an M.M. and a B.M. summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and completed D.M.A. coursework (A.B.D.) in Choral Conducting at Louisiana State University.