Sarah Mullins is a percussionist, drummer, and educator based in Toronto.

Sarah lived in NYC for 15 years, performing and teaching, before returning to Canada. She has performed with orchestras (Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Manhattan Symphonie), chamber ensembles and as a soloist with dancers (Periapsis Music and Dance), live foley with silent films (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra), musical improv comedy (Offbook the Improvised Musical Podcast, Shamilton- Hip Hop improv, Your Love Our Musical, Vern, The Wayfaring Strangers Improvised Bluegrass Musical), the Glenn Branca Ensemble, rock bands (Melissa Gordon, and Gabrielle Sterbenz- on drums and backing vocals- opening band for the Wheatus UK/EU 2019 Tour), as a puppeteer/backing vocals in rock bands for babies (Fiddle Foxes, Rockin’ Railroad), Balinese gamelan (Gamelan Dharma Swara, New Atlantic Chamber Gamelan), and sang for 10 years in a choir dedicated to learning traditional polyphonic music from the Republic of Georgia (Supruli- directed by Carl Linich). Sarah has toured with rock bands, musical improv groups, and orchestras throughout the US, China, the UK, Holland, and Germany. She traveled to learn music in Bali, Indonesia in 2022, and participated in a song study tour in the Republic of Georgia and the Maçahel region of Turkey in 2018. 

As an educator, Sarah teaches drum and percussion lessons at the Mill House School of Music in Toronto. In NYC, Sarah was a Percussion and General Music Teaching Artist with Brooklyn Music School and the Harmony Program, and primarily taught at NYC DOE public and charter schools throughout the city. She taught private lessons, coached percussion ensemble, percussion sections of youth orchestras, and was a percussion instructor at the Harmony at Juilliard Summer Camp in 2024.  Sarah taught master classes in Balinese Gamelan at St. John’s University in Flushing, Queens, as well as Solo Percussion and Interpreting Graphic Scores at Bucknell University in PA. 

Sarah holds a Master of Arts in Percussion Performance from the City University of New York at Queens College, Artist Diploma from The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from McGill University. She studied with D’Arcy Philip Gray, Andrei Malashenko (Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal), John Rudolph (Toronto Symphony Orchestra), David Kent (Toronto Symphony Orchestra), and Michael Lipsey (Talujon). 

Sarah’s intuitive percussion playing made her a mainstay in the musical improv comedy scene in New York City! -Dan Reitz, MD for award winning- Your Love Our Musical!, Baby Wants Candy, and Blank! The Musical.

I’ve worked with dozens of excellent percussionists and teaching artists throughout my career, and Sarah Mullins is one of the GREATEST! She tailors each private lesson to the needs of the students, and I was always gratified and delighted to see how quickly her students improved in all areas of musicianship: technique, theory, ensemble skills, keeping time, self-confidence, you name it. Her natural warmth, kindness, and patience ensured that she would profoundly affect the lives of everyone she met, including me. - Nate Sutton, Professional Educator and Musician, NYC