Dr. Sasha Enegren regularly performs in recitals, chamber music, and orchestral concerts. As a member of Quintet of the Americas, she performed at the Havana Music Festival, National Opera Center, and throughout New York City. QoA frequently performed outreach at schools and community organizations in underserved communities, supported by grants from National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, and New York State Council on the Arts. 

She holds the Towson bassoon chair with Savannah Philharmonic and is a member of Iris Orchestra. She has performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, New York Pops, Riverside Symphony, and Jacksonville Symphony. In 2021, she was part of the Grammy-winning album, “Dame Ethel Smyth: The Prison,” with Experiential Orchestra.  

An advocate for new music, Sasha has commissioned and performed eleven new works for bassoon. In 2022, her chamber ensemble, Arundo Trio, will premiere works by Eric Ewazen, Adrienne Albert, and Jeff Scott at the International Double Reed Society conference, where she will also present a research lecture on the lineage of bassoonists in the United States.  

She earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree and Master of Music degree in Orchestral Performance from Manhattan School of Music; a Performance Certificate from Mannes College of Music; and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest University. Her bassoon teachers include: Marc Goldberg, Kim Laskoswki, Frank Morelli, Mark Popkin, and Patricia Rogers.

Her doctoral fellowship at the Center for Music Entrepreneurship at Manhattan School of Music included coaching students on career skills, which she implements in her studio teaching.

Dr. Enegren’s publications can be found in the journals of the International Double Reed Society and the International Alliance for Women in Music. Awards have included the Helen Cohn Award for Outstanding Graduate of Doctorate of Musical Arts, Helen Fahnestock Hubbard Family Scholarship, Theodore H. Barth Foundation Scholarship from Manhattan School of Music; the Presidential Scholarship for Distinguished Achievement, Christian Cappelluti Distinguished Soloist Prize, and Louise Cochrane Boteler Prize from Wake Forest University. 

Dr. Enegren was Assistant Professor of Bassoon and Woodwind Coordinator at Montclair State University has taught at Middle Tennessee State University.