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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
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
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Ian Anderson
Lloyd S.
Paul M.
Todd V. Wolfson
Jeff Jansen
Emily B., Grade 9
Glynis Smoot
March 18, 2020
Sarah Jane Hargis blends her traditional Classical flute-playing skills and technique with contemporary technology to produce a uniquely tuneful result. Her use of echo looping and other FX is always within the bounds of careful creative musicality and not merely for glitzy sensation. So nice to hear a fresh approach to the sonic world of the flute and one which presents the listener with new horizons.
My granddaughter Sakkera has taken private lessons from Sarah Jane for 3 years, all though middle school. She went from being unsure of herself to being confident and winning awards. Private lessons from Sarah Jane have been a major part of excellent growth both as a flutist and as a maturing young lady.
I have been playing saxophone for more than thirty years and about five years ago I purchased a quality flute and began lessons. After many lessons with other flute teachers and considerable effort on my part – I was not able to get a good flute tone and airstream so out of frustration I put the flute on the shelf and stopped trying to learn. About a month ago I met Sarah Jane and began flute lessons with her. She has a radically different approach than my other flute teachers and she was able to quickly diagnose my issue and prescribe a solution. I am happy to report that thanks to Sara Jane, I am now getting a good tone on the flute and am now ready to continue my flute studies. I look forward to my weekly flute lesson with Sarah Jane. She is very competent and patient. I highly recommend flute lessons with Sarah Jane for any age students.
I have had the blessing of playing and recording music with Sarah Jane Hargis.
Sarah is one of the most talented and creative musicians I have worked with.
Her ability to play in a conventional manner is exceptional, but what truly impressed me was her artfulness and brilliance in creating sounds electronically.
Sarah helped me to bring out things in my own playing, that had never been brought to light. Sarah is AMAZING!
To attend a performance by Sarah Jane is to be treated to a dazzling array of spellbinding musicality, brilliant technique, and shimmering, vibrant tone. Whether playing classical, jazz, or her own original electronic compositions, she explores new and creative ways to constantly push the art of flute playing. To hear Sarah Jane play is to share in the boundless energy and joy she clearly has for her instrument. An absolute treat for your ears and your soul!
Sarah Jane is an accomplished flute teacher, who uses varied techniques and methods of teaching in order to find which way conforms best to the student. Not only is she a wonderful teacher with both experience and ability; she also is a great role model and an inspiration to her students. She works with all different levels of flutists, no matter the skill, personality or age. With fresh, out-of-the-box ideas, she keeps the student at a fast and fun pace. I highly recommend her as your flute teacher.
l have known Sarah Jane Hargis for the past several years. She has been a private flute/piccolo lesson teacher for two of my children. One of them is still seeing her for lessons regularly.
Sarah Jane has a calm demeanor and is able to encourage her students because she is so pleasant. However, she is also a firm instructor, expecting her students to practice and to further their skills by trying new things and by instituting suggested corrections, when needed.
Sarah Jane regularly hosts recitals for her large group of students, which are varying ages and at all different levels of ability. These are done on her own time, without charge, and are a great way to encourage students to play in front of an audience and to teach them appreciation for others’ talents.