Guest Artists
Meet The Arstists
Master Sgt. Sara Reese is the bass clarinetist of the Concert Band, The United States Air Force Band, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C. Originally from Port Charlotte, Florida, her career in the Air Force began in 2011.
Before joining the Air Force, she worked and performed as a teaching artist for the Yale School of Music's Music in Schools program. She has also performed with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera Festival Orchestra, and the orchestras of the Aspen and Brevard Music Festivals. In 2010, Reese made her solo debut performing Rossini's "Introduction, Theme, and Variations" with the Southwest Florida Symphony. She can also be heard on the 2011 Emmy-winning soundtrack to the PBS documentary "John Muir In The New World."
MSgt. Reese earned a Bachelor of Music in clarinet performance from Florida State University in 2009, where she studied with Frank Kowalsky and Deborah Bish. She continued her studies with David Shifrin at the Yale School of Music, graduating in 2011 with a Master of Music degree.
SSG Rucha Trivedi joined the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own" in 2022. She graduated from the University of North Texas in 2014 with a Master of Music in Clarinet Performance and a Related Field in Wind Conducting. She won the UNT Concerto Competition in 2013, performing the first movement of the Françaix Clarinet Concerto, and in 2014 was selected as a finalist in the International Clarinet Association's Young Artist Competition. Trivedi completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011, majoring in Music Performance and French. Her primary teachers include Linda Bartley, Kimberly Cole Luevano, Robert DiLutis, and Nancy Mackenzie. Prior to joining "Pershing's Own," Trivedi worked as a freelance musician in the Washington D.C. area, performing with groups such as the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, and serving as a clarinet and woodwinds sectional coach and adjudicator. She currently maintains a select studio of young clarinetists in Northern Virginia. In her spare time, Trivedi enjoys reading, loom knitting, and hiking. She lives in Northern Virginia with her son, her husband (also a member of "Pershing's Own"), and two dogs, Barnacle and Albus.