Sarah Willis
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Biography
Sarah Willis, born on 23 February 1968 in Bethesda, Maryland, United States, is a French horn player. She began playing the horn at age 14 and studied at the Royal College of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1991, Sarah Willis joined the Berlin Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera) as second horn under Daniel Barenboim. She later became the first woman in the brass section of the Berlin Philharmonic in 2001 under Simon Rattle. Throughout her career, she has performed with orchestras including those of Chicago, London, and Sydney, and has been a presenter on Deutsche Welle's Sarah's Music and the Digital Concert Hall. Sarah Willis also mentored for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011, which drew 33 million viewers. Her discography includes Rosetti - Concertos for Two Horns (2003), Horn Discoveries (2014), and the Mozart-latin influenced album series Mozart y Mambo (2020), Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances (2022), Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana (2023). In October 2025, she released the album Cuban Christmas.
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- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Silent Night
- Jingle Bells (Arr. Davis)
- Sarahnade mambo (Based on Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by W. A. Mozart, K. 525)
- Horn Concerto in E-Flat Major, K. 447: III. Allegro
- Qué rico el mambo
- Rondo in E-Flat Major, K. 371 for Horn and Orchestra
- Concerto Movement for Horn in E-Flat Major, K. 370b
- Dos gardenias
- El manisero
- Horn Concerto in E-Flat Major, K. 447: II. Romance - Larghetto
- Rondo alla Mambo (Inspired by the Third Movement of W. A. Mozart's Horn Concerto, K. 447)
- The Christmas Song (Arr. Aragón)
- Allegro (From Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048) [Arr. Olivero]
- Criolla Navidad
- Dance of the Reed Pipes (From the Cuban Nutcracker Suite) [Arr. Davis & Lombida]
- Waltz of the Flowers (From the Cuban Nutcracker Suite) [Arr. Davis & Lombida]
- March (From the Cuban Nutcracker Suite) [Arr. Davis & Lombida]
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (From the Cuban Nutcracker Suite) [Arr. Davis & Lombida]
- White Christmas (Arr. Aragón)
- Feliz Navidad (Arr. Aragón)
