Staff
Sarah Tiedemann
Artistic Director
Sarah Tiedemann currently serves as the Artistic Director of Third Angle New Music and as a member of the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra. She has performed across North America, Europe, and Australia with groups including the Oregon Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and at festivals including Chamber Music Northwest, the Britt Festival, the Astoria Music Festival, and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice.
Sarah specializes in interpreting contemporary works and has appeared with Third Angle New Music, Northwest New Music, Cascadia Composers, and Boston’s Callithumpian Consort. She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the New England Conservatory and pursued postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. Sarah has received national and international awards and fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the American Women’s Club of Sweden.
Also a skilled administrator, she previously served as Executive Director of Young Musicians & Artists (YMA), Communications Coordinator at Third Angle, and Marketing Director at Chamber Music Northwest. She is currently a faculty member at Lewis & Clark College and Portland State University.
Interim Executive Director
Will Pyle
Will Pyle is an artist and artistic administrator driven by a love of connecting people with music, art, and the world around them. Will works at Third Angle to connect the organization with the Portland community, highlight Third Angle’s distinctively adventurous programming, and help create inclusive spaces for people to experience new music.
As a saxophonist, Will is a founding member of the Aruna Quartet which has garnered national and international acclaim, including the Grand Prize of the 46th Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Will also makes music as a part of the unusual harp and saxophone trio, keystring. In Portland, Will plays officially with Third Angle New Music, ChatterPDX and unofficially with many others. His primary teachers include David Dees at Texas Tech University and Chein-Kwan Lin at the Eastman School of Music.
He also serves as Executive Director of the Aruna Quartet’s non-profit organization and takes a lead role in managing commissions, fundraising, and community outreach efforts. He serves on the boards of Seattle based non-profit Live Music Project and Rochester, NY- based new music ensemble fivebyfive.
Outside of his musical and administrative life, Will enjoys shooting 35mm film and playing with his two dogs.
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Board of Directors
Michael Reed, President
Founding Partner Emeritus, Mayer/Reed
Ted Clifford, Treasurer
Composer
Ross Seligman, Secretary
Principal Broker, Living Room Realty
Lars Campbell
Director of Instrumental Music, Clackamas Community College
Phylicia Chartier
People and Culture Generalist, Meyer Memorial Trust
Valdine Ritchie Mishkin
Cellist, Adjunct Faculty, Reed College
Mike Rego
Retired, Hewlett Packard and Portland Japanese Garden
Elaine Vote
Sarah Tiedemann
Artistic Director, Third Angle New Music,
Ex-Officio Member
William Pyle
Interim Executive Director, Third Angle New Music,
Ex-Officio Member