Sachin Shukla

(He/him)

Sachin Shukla is a violist and teacher based in Boston. Performances have brought him across the US and Italy, and to the stages of Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and NEC’s Jordan Hall. Sachin is on the faculty of the Powers Music School in Belmont, MA and is a teaching artist with the Boston Music Project. He is a member of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with A Far Cry, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, and the Plymouth Philharmonic, among others.

Sachin won the 2021 Northwestern Viola Prize and has performed at festivals including the Heifetz International Music Institute, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Taconic Music, and the Cazenovia Counterpoint Festival. He is also active in the world of historically-informed performance, having performed in ensembles led by Ingrid Matthews, Phoebe Carrai, and Aislinn Nosky. Sachin is a graduate of Northwestern University and the New England Conservatory, where his principal teachers were Helen Callus and Mai Motobuchi.

Sachin’s article on the Walton Viola Concerto, which he presented at the American Viola Society’s Annual Conference in June 2022, was recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Viola Society, after garnering first place in its 2021 David Dalton Research Competition. Another one of his papers was featured at the 2022 Galant Schemata conference.

In addition to his musical activities, Sachin is also a public policy enthusiast. He served as research assistant to Diane Schanzenbach and Ajay K. Mehrotra, and was a member of the executive board of Northwestern University’s Political Union for three years, culminating in a term as co-president.