Sarah Hicks has collaborated with artists from Hilary Hahn and Dmitri Hvorostovsky to Rufus Wainwright, Jennifer Hudson, and Smokey Robinson. She has toured with Sting as conductor of his Symphonicities Tour in 2011, and recorded a 2019 album with rap artist Dessa and the Minnesota Orchestra, where she is Principal Conductor of Live at Orchestra Hall.
     Associate Conductor of the North Carolina Symphony from 2007 to 2010, Hicks has conducted ensembles including The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Pops Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
     A specialist in film music, Hicks’ live concert recordings have aired on Disney+ (A Celebration of the Music from Coco) and ABC (The Little Mermaid). Her program of film music with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, The Morricone Duel, was released as an album in 2018 and has more than 80 million views on YouTube.
     Hicks was on faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music from 2000 to 2005 and Staff Conductor until 2012. Her interest in the intersection of mental health and music led to a concert titled Music and the Mind, and continues through blogs, online advocacy, and development of a Musical Mindfulness course.
     Born in Tokyo and raised in Honolulu, Hicks trained on both the piano and the viola and was a prizewinning pianist by her early teens. She holds degrees from Harvard University and the Curtis Institute of Music. In her spare time, she enjoys running, hiking, her Papillon dog, cooking (and eating) with her husband, traveling, and blogging.