Biography

Hailed as a "master of her instrument" and praised for her "rich and warm interpretations" (The Clarinet), Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Korneisel Jaegers has a strong interest in world music, expansion of the clarinet repertoire, and diversification of the canon, particularly through the promotion of works by Turkish composers. A solo, chamber, and orchestral clarinetist and music educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, Dr. Jaegers is the Clarinet Teaching Artist and lead teacher at Enriching Lives Through Music (San Rafael, CA), clarinet, saxophone, and piano faculty at Amabile School of Music (San Francisco and Moraga), a Mentor Artist and Music Specialist with Youth In Arts (San Rafael, CA), and maintains an active private studio. She currently performs as principal clarinet of the Golden Gate Park Band, Rhode Island Recording Ensemble (RIRE), Latin quartet Araya, and the DesertLake Duo. She also performs regularly with other Bay Area ensembles, including the Fresno Philharmonic, Santa Cruz Symphony, and Berkeley Playhouse. Previously, Dr. Jaegers performed with the Walla Walla Symphony Orchestra (Walla Walla, WA), the Mid-Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Richland, WA), and the Tri-Cities Big Band (Kennewick, WA). 

Dr. Jaegers serves as the Musician/Worker Relations and Music Manager for RIRE and is a clarinet clinician for the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band.  Since 2017, she has commissioned six new works for clarinet (as well as numerous new arrangements with Araya), by composers including Zachary Friedland,  Francisco Javier de Alba, Jacob Lee, and Manuel Hurtado Duenez. 

An international performer since 2011, Dr. Jaegers has toured in countries throughout Europe, including at the Belgian Clarinet Academy in Ostend, Belgium, the European Clarinet Festival in Camerino, Italy, the Corsi Internazionali di Perfezonamento Musicale in Cividale del Friuli, Italy and the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest® in Madrid, Spain and Dublin, Ireland. She frequently performs and presents at the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest® and the American Single Reed Summit and is an audio and music reviewer for the ICA's journal, The Clarinet.

Dr. Jaegers maintains an active private studio in the Bay Area and has taught private clarinet lessons since 2013. Her students have consistently received the highest ratings at Solo and Ensemble festivals. Many have gone on to play in college bands and pursue a career in music. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Clarinet Performance from The Ohio State University, a Master of Music degree in Clarinet Performance from Michigan State University, and two degrees—a Bachelor of Music degree in Clarinet Performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in World Languages and Cultures (Spanish)—from Iowa State University. Her principal teachers include Dr. Caroline Hartig, Dr. Guy Yehuda, and Dr. Gregory Oakes. Other teachers include Carey Bell, Nicola Bulfone, Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Dr. Robert Spring, and Dr. Deborah Bish. She has performed in masterclasses for distinguished clarinetists Daniel Ottensamer, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, Håkan Rosengren, Walter Seyfarth, Nicola Bulfone, Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Robert Spring, Deborah Bish, Shawn Copeland, Eli Eban, Tasha Warren-Yehuda, Christopher Nichols, Phillip Paglialonga, Joseph Messenger, Bil Jackson, John Klinghammer, Jana Starling, Michele Gingras, and Eric Mandat. Her DMA Document—entitled Turkish Classical Clarinet Repertoire: Performance, Accessibility, and Integration into the Canon, with a Performance Guide to Works by Edward J. Hines and Ahmet Adnan Saygun—is focused on classical clarinet performance in the Republic of Turkey and the value of classical clarinet works by Turkish composers that are a largely unknown segment of clarinet repertoire. Dr. Jaegers traveled to Turkey in 2018 to conduct research for this document.