Sarah Wallin-Huff
Personal Information
Description
Violinist, composer, and author Sarah Wallin Huff has been playing the violin since 1990 and composing since 1993. Sarah’s music compositional style is what she calls "stream-of-consciousness" composition. She is currently a professor of music at Cal Poly Pomona and published her first textbook, "History of Technology in Music," in 2019 with Great River Learning. Throughout the course of her exploits, Sarah's literary writing has been a regular part of her creative life, beginning seriously in 1992. As she enjoys exploiting the abstract and the philosophical as a backdrop to everything she does, it is no surprise, then, how influential both her literary and music composition are to each other.
Books
“Leviathan of the Ancient Deep”
This original picture-book and poem by Sarah Wallin-Huff features the three movements and subsections found within her 2008 concerto for 6-string electric violin, EWI, synth, and orchestra, “Leviathan of the Ancient Deep,” allowing the reader to dive into the mythology that built the musical work. When you see the Speaker Symbol on a page, visit to access free audio clips from the official Leviathan Recording, illustrating each section of this epic with its matching musical segment from the Concerto. It’s a beautiful and imaginative way to get a deeper understanding of the music’s story, and to make a solid connection between the changes in the musical work and the scenes of the story they represent.