Violinist Sabrina Tabby, from Philadelphia, developed a fondness for music-making at a very young age, playing daily with her twin sister (the cellist of ATLYS!). The two were featured on National Public Radio’s “From the Top” radio series and television show at Carnegie Hall and placed repeatedly in the Fischoff International Chamber music Competition. Sabrina has performed across four continents, as concertmaster and soloist, in chamber groups, as well as in various baroque and new music ensembles. A founding member (2010) of the NYC-based new music ensemble, Contemporaneous, she is prominently featured on Innova Recordings album Stream of Stars: Music of Dylan Mattingly and led the ensemble, in May 2023, in their Walt Disney Hall Debut of the 6-hour opera, Stranger Love.
Sabrina actively travels to perform music of all styles, often with her husband, conductor and violist Ernesto Estigarribia. Recent highlights include a tour through Central Europe soloing with the Quad City Youth Symphony Orchestra in performances of Michael Kropf’s violin concerto, commissioned for her. Sabrina has also been a proud member of the violin section of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra’s since 2018 and was recently appointed as the new concertmaster of the Mankato Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2020, she has recorded hundreds of remote sessions spanning albums to motion pictures. Her solo performance is prominently featured in the opening credits of award-winning documentary ‘Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche’ by Julian Scherle. In Nashville, she is a sought-after session musician in the bustling recording industry there.
When not performing, recording, practicing, or teaching, Sabrina’s favorite activity is teaming up with Ernesto in the kitchen to concoct (and devour) delicious plant-based creations!
