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Sarah Jane is an artist for Altus Flutes and Earthquaker Devices

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About Sarah Jane

Sarah Jane is an internationally-acclaimed performer and composer of classical, modern, and improvisational music.

Her adventurous spirit allows Sarah Jane to take a full, rich, classical tone and combine it with a passionate exploration of electronic sound effects. She fuses blues, jazz, electronic music, pop, and improvisation into an exciting blend of ambient grooves that have been described as “an improvisational playground”, “melodically purifying”, and “electronic space pop”.  Sarah Jane is currently teaching at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. She continues to perform actively as a soloist and with various groups around the world. She holds a Master’s of Music in Flute Performance from the University of New Mexico, and a Bachelor’s of Music Education from Eastern Kentucky University. Her teachers include Alexa Still, Jim Walker, Valerie Potter, Adam Kunzel, George Pope, Toshio Takahashi, and many more.

Healing Sound Project 1:1

Released: April 12, 2019. New Age, Ambient, Relaxation & Meditation

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Take your journey of meditation to a deeper level with these ambient sounds to guide your mind and heart. This album is a collection of sound meditations with flute, harp, electronics, and pedal effects.
Sarah Jane’s latest project is the “Healing Sound Project 1:1” with Neurological Music Therapist and electronic harpist Andrea Cortez, whom she met while working on her Neurological Music Therapy degree in Colorado. Always dreaming of recording with a harpist, Sarah Jane decided to relocate to Austin to collaborate with Andrea who began studying harp with the intention to create music to aid in healing music together.

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Sarah Jane Hargis – Flute and Electronics
Andrea Cortez – Harp and Electronics

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Flutist and Composer

Sarah Jane, was born and raised deep inside the Appalachian Mountains, where her family history reaches back to 1642. They came to America as indentured servants before settling in the verdant hills of Virginia. Her grandparents were farmers and coal miners who supported the family through hunting, raising their crops and preserving their own food. Sarah Jane grew up above a flower shop run by her father and paternal grandmother. She also split her time with them and her Mother, Step-Father and maternal grandparents.
Sarah Jane’s life was filled with music from an early age. With the flower shop below and her home above, Sarah Jane learned to love music as her grandmother’s, father’s and step-father’s playing became the soundtrack of her youth. Eventually, sharing a bench with her grandmother, Sarah Jane learned music theory, beginning piano, and started composing songs. When not playing her grandmother’s piano, she learned guitar and cornet from her father and was amazed by her step-father’s electric guitar and bass playing. It wasn’t until starting middle school that her band director saw her potential as a flutist.
In middle school, Sarah Jane also learned how to play the saxophone and percussion. Her high school years gave her the opportunity to play sax in a stage band that covered Motown songs from the 60’s and 70’s, and during college she toured and performed mallet percussion with Drum Corps International. But in the flute, Sarah Jane found her voice.
After high school, Sarah Jane became the first in her generation to attend college  and received a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Eastern Kentucky University.

During her employment as Director of Bands in an Oregon school district, Sarah Jane began to lose some of her hearing. This discovery led to many tears and an abrupt departure from teaching music so she could figure out how to move forward.
She found quickly leaving music was not the answer for her. Music was her life!
Sarah Jane started studying Neurological Music Therapy at Colorado State University. Undeterred from her partial hearing loss, Sarah Jane returned to flute performance and pedagogy and completed a Masters of Music in Flute Performance.  She now at Saint Edward’s University and has cultivated speaking events around the world about following your passions and overcoming what may seem like unbeatable obstacles. She is always sharing the drive to follow your dreams no matter what the challenges are with her students and colleagues.
Inspired by many different styles of music including Classical, Jazz, Electronic, New Age and Opera, Sarah Jane has recorded her own music and has appeared on recordings with other well-known artists such as Nestor Torres, Alex Coke, Matt Hubbard, Todd V. Wolfson Rio Trio, and Steve Haskin. You can often hear her using electronic pedals like a guitarist would with her flutes including piccolo, concert flute, alto flute, bass flute and Native American flutes.
Sarah Jane’s latest project is the Healing Sound Project with Neurological Music Therapist and electronic harpist Andrea Cortez, whom she met while working on her Neurological Music Therapy degree in Colorado. Andrea invited Sarah Jane to one of her Music Therapy group sessions where she played her harp and it was a magical experience for both. They soon recorded Healing Sound Project 1:1, to create an album for practitioners of the healing arts, yoga and meditation. Sarah Jane plans on recording additional volumes of the Healing Sound

Music

Sarah Jane Albums

Saving The Queen

Improvisation One

Ethereal Spectrum

Straight to the Top - Rio Trio

Healing Sound Project

Elements Album

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