Sarah Danielle-Grosskopf was born in Chicago in 1968. She is an American conductor with dual French nationality.

Since 2007, she has served as Musical Director of the TriRhena Symphony Orchestra & Opera in Saint-Louis, France bordering Northern Switzerland and Southern Germany. She is also Musical Director of the newly formed Studio City Opera in Los Angeles.

She received her conducting diploma from the Musikhochschule Luzern in Switzerland. 

In her native city of Chicago, Ms. Grosskopf was one of the youngest graduates of Roosevelt University’s, Chicago College of the Performing Arts ( National Dean’s List) where she earned a Bachelor and Master of Music Degree in piano and organ performance. Her conducting debut was in Chicago, Illinois with the Loop Chamber Orchestra.

As an orchestral and opera guest conductor, she has conducted the Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra in France, the Regio Chor in Basel, Switzerland, the Junge Philharmonie Zentralschweiz in Luzern, Switzerland, the Chamber Opera of the University of Southern California in a world premier of Daron Hagen’s “Broken Pieces” and the University Campus Choir of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). 

As an orchestrator, her 5 original orchestrations from Tchaikovsky’s “Seasons” were well received from critics in Luzern and Engelberg, Switzerland. She was also commissioned by a Hollywood composer to conduct a musical submission for an independent film project with the Collegium Musicum Orchestra in Mulhouse, France.