Sabrina Schroeder (b. 1979 in BC, Canada) writes music for acoustic ensembles, homemade instruments, electronic sound, and extended performance or installation environments. Playing through tactile sounds and gestural language, her work finds much of its underlying impulses in the grain of daily events, exploring patterns and synergies in both external and intuitive layers of perception.

Her work has been presented throughout North America and Europe by groups that include the Orchestra de Ereprijs (Netherlands), OCNM Ensemble (Czech Republic), Arraymusic (Toronto), Frequenzen (Germany), Quatuor Bozzini (Montreal), SEM Ensemble (New York), Flux Quartet (New York), Calithumpian Consort (Boston), Till by Turning (Chicago/New York), Quatuor Diotima (France), violinist Nadia Francavilla and other independent performers including a duo show with composer-performer Aaron Siegel at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens, NY.

She has been an active and founding member of several composer-performer collectives presenting scored and improvised music, the initiator of a project and performance venue (578 John Street) presenting work by emerging sound and visual artists, and recently became a performing member of the Anthony Braxton 12+1tet.  From 2007-2009, Schroeder taught as an adjunct lecturer in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s media art department designing courses in sound art and cross-disciplinary threads in 20th C art.

Schroeder has been the recipient of numerous awards and commissions, including five grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and others awarded by the British Columbia Arts Council, Wesleyan University, Harvard University, and the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Main teachers have included Michael Longton and Christopher Butterfield (University of Victoria), Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton (Wesleyan University), and Chaya Czernowin, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, and Hans Tutschku (Harvard University).

She currently lives in Somerville, Massachussets, and balances time between freelancing, building things, and working on a PhD.