Sascha Burhop

Personnel Co-Manager

Sascha Burhop is a second year undergraduate student double majoring in Violin Performance, studying with Professor Juliana Athayde, and Composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Burhop began as a self-taught violinist around 6th grade and formally began studying violin with Kirsty B. Green during his freshman year of high school at the Governor’s School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia. Since beginning his violin journey, Sascha has had the opportunity to perform as both concertmaster and soloist with ensembles at the Governor’s School for the Arts, perform in numerous chamber ensembles ranging from piano trios to mixed ensembles including voice and percussion, and participate in classical, contemporary, and baroque ensembles at the Eastman School of Music including the Eastman Collegium and Eastman Musica Nova. Alongside violin, Sascha began studying composition in high school at The Governor's School for the Arts, and has since had many works performed by peers and professionals alike, working closely with musicians of the Virginia Symphony, members of the Zohn Collective, and composers such as Stephen Coxe and Jessie Montgomery.

Alongside his double major at Eastman, Burhop is also a history major at the University of Rochester river campus with his main research and interests focusing on the development of mass social movements and religious organizations and the different developments and uses of art and artistic movements within propaganda and cultural shifts throughout history.