Pianist Sara Laimon is an active performer in both solo and chamber music. She has performed in Canada, the United States, France, Japan, Mexico, and Poland, and has represented the U.S. Information Agency as an Artistic Ambassador in India and Nepal. Sara is founding member and managing director of the acclaimed New York based group Sequitur, a core member of Musicians Accord, and has been guest artist with numerous other ensembles. As a sought after performer of new music, she has worked with such composers as Ligeti, Berio, Bresnick, and Kirchner, as well as performing and recording music of many emerging American composers. The NY Times hailed her as "a commanding and confident player with a strong technique and an ability to find the drama and wit in works that often had daunting surfaces." Ms. Laimon has recorded for CRI, Capstone Records, North/South Recordings, MODE records and recently released her first solo CD (Copland Fantasy, Ives Sonata #1) on MODE in January of 2001. She is a frequent performer on CBC and NPR and has also been heard on radio broadcasts from summer performances at Marlboro, Tanglewood and Banff.

Born in Vancouver, Sara is a graduate of the Vancouver Academy of Music, the University of British Columbia, Yale School of Music and SUNY Stony Brook where she received a DMA under Gilbert Kalish. Ms. Laimon was a member of the piano faculty at the Yale School of Music and the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg before joining the McGill Faculty of Music this year. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her husband and daughter.