Sarah Chumney Fellenbaum, trumpet with the Knoxville Brass WorX Company, is also a freelance trumpet player and teacher in the Knoxville area.   She has performed with many ensembles,  including the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra,  the Knoxville Wind Symphony,  the Johnson City Symphony,  Southern Stars Symphonic Brass Band and the Tennessee Brass Orchestra.

Sarah is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,  where she earned a Masters Degree while serving as the graduate teaching assistant to Dr. Cathy Leach.  While at UT,  Sarah performed with the Faculty Brasswind Quintet,  the Loose Lips Graduate Brass Quintet,  the UT Symphony Orchestra,  UT Trumpet Ensemble,  and directed the J.V. Trumpet Squad.

While earning a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, she studied primarily with Barbara Butler and performed in many ensembles including the Concert Band,  Symphonic Wind Ensemble,  Chamber Orchestra,  Symphony Orchestra,  Brass Ensemble,  Brass Quintet and, in the Chicago area,   with the Evanston Symphony,  Northbrook Symphony,  Whiting Park Festival Orchestra,  the South Bend Symphony,  and the Chicago Brass Band.   In her first year, Sarah was the first freshman to win a position in Barbara Butler’s excerpt class since its inception.

A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Sarah was a member of the Memphis Area Youth Wind Ensemble and the Memphis Youth Symphony, while studying trumpet with Scott Moore and Elizabeth Carter. She also attended Interlochen Arts Academy, where she studied with Dr. Stanley Friedman and Richard Stoelzel, and was principal trumpet with the Interlochen band and a member of the brass ensemble.