BIOGRAPHY

 

Born and raised in central Massachusetts, bassoonist Sandra Nikolajevs began her formal musical education at the Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music and continued her studies at the Juilliard School and Paris Conservatory.   Ms. Nikolajevs has worked with such notable conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez and Robert Spano and has performed chamber music in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.   

 

Ms. Nikolajevs is currently Principal Bassoonist of the Savannah Philharmonic and has held the same position with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, South Carolina Philharmonic and Augusta Symphony. She is Founder, President and Artistic Director of Chamber Music Charleston, is part of the Artistic Collective for Ballet Evolution and is on the faculty of the Luzerne Music Center.