Pianist Sarah Cahill is a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area's avant-garde scene and has worked closely with composer Terry Riley for many years. She is also a radio show host, writer, and educator. Cahill has a substantial recording catalog, dating back to the late '90s and consisting mostly but not entirely of contemporary music. In 2025, she was heard with her frequent duo piano partner Regina Myers on the album D. Riley Nicholson: UP.
Cahill was born in 1960 in Washington, D.C. Her family moved to Berkeley, California, when she was six, as her father, James Cahill, ...