About Dr. SchoutenSarah Schouten serves as Assistant Professor of Music (Horn) at The Pennsylvania State University and a member of the Pennsylvania Quintet (Faculty Wind Quintet). In addition to her university duties, she is an active free-lance artist, clinician, and teacher throughout Pennsylvania. Sarah maintains a private studio and performs with the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, the Penns Woods Music Festival, the Altoona Symphony, Fuse Productions, and is a sub for the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra and the Erie Philharmonic. Her orchestral experience also includes the Ocala Symphony, the Arcadia Festival Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, the Nittany Valley Symphony, the Rome Festival Orchestra, the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, Blue Lake Festival Orchestra, and the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra.
As an active lecturer and performer, Sarah has presented at numerous conferences, workshops, and festivals including: the Southeast Horn Workshop, the Northeast Horn Workshop, the International Horn Symposium, the Academic Festival (Edinboro University), the Stander Symposium (University of Dayton), the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival, the International Festival of Composers, Conductors, and Collaborators (IFC3), and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. In January of 2026, hosted the Northeast Horn Workshop at Penn State, featuring guest artists Leelanee Sterrett (New York Philharmonic), Gina Gillie (composer and hornist), and Shawn Hagen (Hagen Mindfulness, Inc.) Sarah also co-authored and article with Lisa Bontrager titled, “Favorite Solo Pieces, op. 2,” which was published in the February 2015 issue of The Horn Call, the Journal of the International Horn Society. |
Sarah performs regularly both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. In 2015, she performed as a soloist with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra as the featured faculty member for the philharmonic’s collaborative concert with Edinboro University. In 2008, as the winner of the staff concerto competition, she performed as a soloist with the Blue Lake Festival Orchestra. Sarah was honored to be a featured clinician at Graceland University’s Brass Day in February 2016. She has also given guest artist recitals and/or masterclasses at Wright State University, The Pennsylvania State University, Florida State University, Ouachita Baptist University, The University of South Alabama, and Pensacola Junior College. She is a member of Just Two, a horn/guitar duo with Tom Cody (Professor of Theory, Penn State University), and the Chambers Schouten Horn Duo. Sarah earned her Doctor of Music degree from Florida State University, her Master of Music Performance degree from The Pennsylvania State University, and her Bachelor of Arts degree in history, Spanish, and music, from the University of Dayton. Her primary teachers include Dr. Richard Chenoweth, Lisa Bontrager, and Michelle Stebleton. She is also an alumnus of The Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestral Musicians. Sarah has also served on the faculty at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania as Assistant Professor of Horn (2019-2020) as a leave of absence replacement, at The Pennsylvania State University as Lecturer of Horn (2017-2018) as a sabbatical replacement, as Instructor of Horn at Marywood University (Jan. 2015-May 2016), and as Instructor of High Brass at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (2014-2019). |
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Publications• "Favorite Solo Pieces, Op. 2"
The Horn Call, Vol. XLV, No. 2 February 2015 co-authored with Lisa Bontrager • "What Now? Life Between Your Graduate Degree and Your Dream Job." The Horn Call, Vol. XLVIII, No. 2 February 2018
co-authored with Rebecca Chambers |
Recordings• Millenium
Fantasy /Images/Peanut Gallery Composer: Ellen Taffe Zwilich Naxos Catalogue No: 8.559656 |