Sabrina Clarke is a composer and music theorist based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She holds a PhD in Music Composition from Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her doctoral dissertation explores how composer Luigi Dallapiccola's Canti di liberazione incorporates the narrative and temporal strategies of author James Joyce. Sabrina is also an alumnus of the European American Musical Alliance Summer Composition Institute (Paris, France), the Splice Institute for Electroacoustic Music, and McDaniel College (Westminster, Maryland).

Sabrina's music has been performed across the United States and abroad. Notable works include “Wissahickon Idyll,” written for the flute-clarinet duo Synergy 78; “On Whale Beach: Dances for String Quartet,” commissioned by the Skyros Quartet; and “Love Songs for Ada,” commissioned by the East Passyunk Opera Project and a Finalist Honorable Mention for the American Prize in Composition. Her work has been featured at conferences, festivals, and new music events including the Music by Women Festival; the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra Local Legends Chamber Music Series; the Penn State New Music Festival; the Common Tone Music Festival; the Society of Composers (SCI) Region III festival; the University of Louisville New Music Festival; the International Trombone Festival; the Composer’s Voice Concert series; New Music Mosaic’s Timbre project; and the Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival in Amsterdam.

Sabrina’s published research includes the book chapter “Time, Teleology, and Narrative in Dallapiccola’s Canti di liberazione,” in Luigi Dallapiccola: Politics, Text, and Musical Thought, ed. Sala and Illiano (Brepols, 2025). Another book chapter, “Synesthetic Associations and Gendered Nature Imagery: Female Agency in the Piano Music of Amy Beach” appeared in A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds, eds. Kouvaras, Grenfell, and Williams (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022). She has also contributed to the Rutgers University Women and Music (WAM) Project, College Music Society’s Symposium, and the IAWM Journal. She has presented her research at meetings of the Society for Music Theory (SMT); the American Musicological Society (AMS); Music Theory Southeast (MTSE); the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (MTSMA); the Women in the Creative Arts Conference at the Australian National University; the Music by Women Festival in Columbus, Mississippi; and the Amy Beach and Teresa Carreño Conference at the University of New Hampshire.

Sabrina is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition and coordinator of the Theory and Composition area at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has previously taught at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware, Temple University, and the Wildflower Composers Festival in Philadelphia. She is active in a number of professional organizations. Passionate about advocacy and mentorship, Sabrina is currently Internship Coordinator for the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM).