Sara DeCorso received her Bachelor's degree from the Oberlin Conservatory as a student of Marilyn McDonald, and completed her Master's and Doctoral degrees at Stony Brook University under Mitchell Stern. After having worked with early music specialists such as Arthur Haas, Phoebe Carrai, Manfred Kraemer, and Kenneth Slowik, she pursued baroque violin studies with Enrico Gatti at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Netherlands. She has worked with a variety of period instrument ensembles, including B’Rock, Anima Eterna Brugge, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Musica ad Rhenum, Van Swieten Society, and New Collegium, with whom she has received a Diapason d'Or and prize at the International Van Wassenaer Competition. As concertmaster she has worked with directors including René Jacobs, Peter Dijkstra, Andreas Spering, Paul van Nevel, and Claudio Ribeiro. Sara plays on a violin buit by Louis Socquet, Paris 1781.