Fine Arts Division

Meet the Faculty

Sara Banta
Instructor and Coordinator of Instrumental Music

Division: Fine Arts Division
Office: Ahmanson Music Building (AMB) 127
Phone: (310) 506-6630
E-mail: sara.banta@pepperdine.edu

• MM in Piano Performance with Minor in Woodwinds, Indiana University
• B.M. in Piano Performance, Indiana University
• Additional graduate study, Collaborative Arts, University of Southern California

Courses:

• Private Piano
• Accompanying and Collaborative Arts

Key Awards/Affiliations:

• Phi Kappa Lambda, Pepperdine University
• Sigma Alpha Iota, Indiana University
• Music Teachers National Association
• Anglican Association of Musicians
• College Music Society

Academic Interests:

• Chamber Music
• Piano Pedagogy
• Piano Performance

Performances:

• Cosi fan Tutti, Mozart, Conductor
• Chamber Orchestra Concerts, Conductor
• Music Man, Conductor
• Fiddler on the Roof, Conductor
• Quilters, Conductor
• Little Shop of Horrors, Conductor
• Pepperdine University Orchestra, Concerto soloist
• Boise Symphony, Concerto Soloist
• Flagstaff Symphony, Concerto Soloist
• Santa Barbara Symphony, Concerto Soloist
• Bear Valley Music Festival, Concerto Soloist