The famous portrait of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach comes home to Leipzig after traveling around the world for 265 years. The world´s leading Bach specialist, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, tells Sarah Willis about his special relationship to the portrait.
Sarah Willis is a British-American French horn player. In 2001, she joined the Berlin Philharmonic, becoming the first female member of its brass section.
She was born in Maryland, USA and grew up in Tokyo, Boston, Moscow and London. At age 14 she started playing French horn and then attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department in London, UK. She studied full-time at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK.
In 1991, she moved to Berlin, where she became Second Horn in the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim.
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