sarah
mullins
drums & percussion
about
Sarah is an NYC-based drummer and percussionist who plays rock/pop/R&B/hip-hop, musical improv comedy, drums for composed and improvised music with dance, orchestral percussion + timpani, mallet percussion, hand drums, and Balinese gamelan instruments!
biography
Sarah Mullins is a Canadian drummer and percussionist based in NYC. She has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Rockwood Music Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Caveat NYC, Jacob’s Pillow in MA, and Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Sarah plays drums with Melissa Gordon (pop/folk/blues/groove), and has played acoustic and electronic drums for numerous sold-out musical improv comedy shows (completely improvised!) in NYC: Your Love Our Musical, Baby Wants Candy, Shamilton, Electric Bitch, and Vern.
Notable projects and performances include as an extra percussionist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glenn Branca Ensemble, singing with NYC’s Georgian choir, Supruli, and traveling to the Republic of Georgia and Eastern Turkey on a song study tour, and to Bali as a member of the New Atlantic Chamber Gamelan to learn Arja Saraswati Puja, a theatrical piece that was subsequently performed at universities throughout the US Northeast. Sarah also traveled as the drummer and backing vocals for Gabrielle Sterbenz and Lady Danger, the opening band for the 2019 Wheatus UK and Europe Tour.
Sarah has degrees in classical percussion from CUNY Queens College and McGill University, and an Artist Diploma from The Glenn Gould School.
recordings
On drums for Melissa Gordon’s Live at Rockwood
On marimbas and triangles for Michael Eaton’s Temporalities, tracks 9-12, from his album, Dialogical (Destiny Records)
On percussion for Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti’s graphic score duo with viola, gray, from her album in manus tuas (New Focus Recordings)
As a member of Gamelan Dharma Swara for Nerissa Campbell’s Legian 1983 on her album After the Magic (crooked mouth music)
On drums for Vern’s A Very Improvised Holiday Musical, available on Audible
I arranged New Order’s Blue Monday for Balinese Gamelan Semara Dana. It has yet to be performed by an actual ensemble, but I played it all into Logic Pro X, which has very good gamelan sounds!
January 2020 Electric Bitch, KGB Bar, NYC. Photo by Dee Moore.
2019 Tour with Gabrielle Sterbenz. Photo by Simon Hill.