Sandra Soderlund is the author of two books on keyboard technique—How Did They Play? How Did They Teach? A History of Keyboard Technique, and Touch and Technique for the Organ.

 

Dr. Soderlund has edited several scholarly editions of keyboard works and written guides to the pipe organ for children and adults. She has also written articles for The American Organist, Diapason, and Clavier. Soderlund's workshops on various aspects of keyboard performance have been well received on college and university campuses as well as at meetings and conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Music Teachers National Association.

 

Dr. Soderlund has taught at several colleges in the San Francisco Area and was a visiting professor at Stanford University and the University of Colorado. She is presently on the faculty at Mills College in Oakland. She has also served as organist and music director in several churches. She holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Southern California, and Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas.

 

Soderlund's concert career has led to performances throughout the United States and in Holland, Germany, France, and Korea. She was the first American to play on the New Podium for Contemporary Music at the Haarlem Organ Festival in The Netherlands.  She has performed on many historic instruments and is known for her imaginative and eclectic programming. She plays harpsichord, clavichord, and both modern and early piano in addition to the organ, and has recorded for Arkay and Albany Records.