Sarah Christian wants to convey the diversity, honest emotion and energy of classical music to her listeners. In her artistic life she enjoys combining all influences and not having to choose between her roles: soloist, concertmaster of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, chamber musician and artistic director of a chamber music series in her hometown Augsburg. In all her activities, she sets the highest standards for herself. Her focus when dealing with the musical text is always on the content of the music, which she always approaches with great respect.
She emerged from the ARD Music Competition 2017 as 2nd prize winner (no 1st prize awarded), she also won the audience prize and the special prize of the Münchener Kammerorchester. Previously, she was successful in numerous other international competitions, such as the Michael Hill Competition in New Zealand, the Brahms Competition Pörtschach in Austria, the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition Berlin and many more. In 2008 she was awarded the »Best String Player of the Year« Award as well as the Yehudi Menuhin Medal of the Mozarteum Salzburg.
Sarah Christian counts among her most important teachers Igor Ozim at the Mozarteum Salzburg as well as Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, whose assistant she was in 2013–2016. She also received impulses and inspiration in master classes with Thomas Brandis, Donald Weilerstein, Rainer Schmidt, Maxim Vengerov and with Miriam Fried.
Since 2013 she has enjoyed being the 1st Concertmaster of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, a position at which she also leads the orchestra from the podium when it plays without a conductor.
She is regularly invited as concertmaster for projects with other orchestras, such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, DSO Berlin and Kammerakademie Potsdam. At the 2017 BBC Proms, she was concertmaster of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, performing »Scheherezade« by Rimsky-Korsakov under the baton of James Gaffigan.
Sarah Christian has performed in many countries in Europe as well as in China, Japan, South America and the USA. She has performed as a soloist with the »Via Nova« Choir Munich, with the Philharmonic Orchestras of Sibiu and Timisoara/Romania, Camerata Salzburg, Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, Klagenfurt Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and the Symphonieorchester des BR, among others. Sarah Christian made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Bavarian State Orchestra in March 2018.
Chamber music is also very important to her, and she has performed in various formations at the Spannungen Festival in Heimbach, the Schwetzingen Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. She initiated a chamber music series in her hometown of Augsburg, which she co-designs with Maximilian Hornung.
The Franz Ensemble, which she newly founded, records rarely performed chamber music for the MDG label, among other things. The first album with works by Ferdinand Ries was awarded the Opus Klassik 2020.
Since 2019 Sarah Christian is professor for violin at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart.