Currently teaching remotely from her private studio, she has numerous adult amateur and school-age students. McIver is current Secretary, immediate-past VP on the Board of Directors for the Flute Society of Washington, and a member of the National Flute Association. Army Field Band, most notably Flute Fundamentals, a comprehensive video covering all aspects of flute instruction and performance. Numerous concert and educational products were recorded during her time with The U.S. 83 by James Hook (2012) and an upcoming project featuring the duets of J.J. Recordings on traverso with Washington's Camerata Early Music Ensemble include Trios, No. She is featured on the most recent Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra recordings and video releases: Stage and Screen Spectacular (2020), Jazzin' the Blues Away (2019), Elite Syncopations (2017). Lee Hinkle Dreams by Day and Night (2014) for flute, soprano, percussion and piano Inside, Outside: 4 Haiku for our Time (2016) for flute and soprano: and Flutepaths (2011) for flute and electronics. She is featured on two albums of works by Lawrence Moss: Grand is the Seen (2014) with soprano Danielle Talamantes Gamelan (2013) for flute and percussion with Dr. Most recently, she recorded Righty, 1966 by Libby Larsen, with soprano Laura Strickling and pianist Joy Schreier. McIver can be heard on a wide variety of recordings. Lisa Cella, Aaron Goldman, Wissam Boustany, Lisa Besnosiuk, Patricia Morris, and Joanne Boddington. Her primary flute teachers were Timothy Hutchins, Peter Lloyd, and Dr. She attained her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a dissertation focus on selected works by flutist-composers from 1852-2005. Private studies continued at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, and at summer workshops in Poland and France through IRCAM. While pursuing a Master of Music degree at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, she wrote a thesis on electro-acoustic music for flute and computers and at the same time began studying baroque flute. She earned a Bachelor of Music Performance from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she developed an appreciation for historical performances and a fascination with contemporary works. McIver began her flute studies at Interlochen Arts Academy, studying with Tyra Gilb.
She left active duty in 2015 to diversify her performing and teaching career, and continues to serve in the Maryland National Guard as First Sergeant of 229th Army Band. In addition, she was a frequent clinician and performer with the Woodwind Ambassadors Quintet, performing in over a dozen states and territories ranging from Alaska to Puerto Rico. She was featured as a concerto soloist on five concert tours. Army Field Band giving over 100 concerts per year.
As a chamber musician, McIver can be heard on flute and piccolo with Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra and on traverso with Washington’s Camerata Early Music Ensemble.įor twelve years, McIver toured nationally with The U.S. Regular engagements include third flute/piccolo with the Apollo Orchestra, second flute/piccolo with American Pops Orchestra, principal flute with Opera Camerata of Washington, and principal flute of Maryland Winds.
She has appeared as a substitute with Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony, Washington National Cathedral Choral Society and the Concert Artists of Baltimore. McIver also performs and teaches in the Baltimore/Washington region on flute, piccolo and baroque flute. Sarah Eckman McIver is an adjunct assistant professor at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College where she teaches flute, is a resident artist member of the Sunderman Wind Quintet, and coaches chamber music.
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