Sarah Hutchings

Sarah Hutchings née Reneer (born September 27, 1984) is an American composer of contemporary opera, art song, and choral works. Life and career Hutchings was born Sarah Reneer in Lexington, Kentucky, on September 27, 1984, and raised in Durham, North Carolina, where she had her first music lessons at the age of four. Hutchings received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2007 from Western Carolina University, her Master of Music degree from Florida State University in 2010, and her Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2013. She has studied under Ladislav Kubík, Clifton Callendar, Michael Fiday, Joel Hoffman, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Hutchings is married to operatic baritone Mitchell Hutchings and lives in Boca Raton, Florida. Works Hutchings’s compositions include four short operas, art songs, and a choral work. Operas *Remember Me, an operatic scene for soprano and baritone with piano accompaniment, received a Festival Award from Boston Metro Opera’s International Composers’ Competition in 2012 and was performed at the Robert J. Werner Recital Hall, University of Cincinnati in 2013. *Twenty Minutes or Less was commissioned by the Washi