Sarah Rimkus is an award-winning American composer of choral, vocal and chamber works.

She brings a wide range of influences to her music, from ars antiqua and ars nova polyphony to Balkan and Scandinavian folk traditions, and many other sources. Her work often explores issues such as communication, belonging, and relationship to the environment through the use of musical layering and contradiction. Her music has been described as “challenging yet attractive” and “always powerful and well-judged,” with a language that “ranges from uncluttered lyrical poignancy to denser textures that suggest a holy clamor.” She earned a Ph.D. in music composition at the University of Aberdeen in 2019, studying with Phillip Cooke and Paul Mealor, after completing an MM in composition with distinction at the University of Aberdeen in 2015. She earned a BM in composition, magna cum laude, in 2013 at the University of Southern California, where she developed her love of working with text and the voice while studying with Morten Lauridsen and Stephen Hartke.