ABOUT SARAH
Hailed by the New York Times as “a voice with considerable warmth,” lyric-soprano Sarah Davis has been recognized as a gifted performer both on the recital and operatic stage. She has premiered works by American composers: John Harbison, Barbara White, Eliza Brown, Eric Nathan, and Elliott Carter at Tanglewood Music Center, SongFest, Radio France, and Network for New Music. In the month prior to the pandemic taking hold, Ms. Davis performed a glorious Liederabend at Schwartzsche Villa in Berlin, Germany, singing Canteloube, Rachmaninov, Sibelius and Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder with pianist Chris Cartner.
Earlier this year Ms. Davis joined the San Antonio Camerata, performing Faure's La Bonne Chanson and at SongFest in Los Angeles, performed John Harbison's Crossroads for Chamber Ensemble to celebrate the composer's 85th birthday. Next up is a collaboration with singer-songwriter & pianist, Anthony Garcia at Mason's Odeon Theater, lieder selections at the Atkins Goethe Conference, Vivaldi's Gloria with Tivy High School Choir and First Presbyterian Church of Kerrville, and an interdisciplinary project singing Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 at the University of the Incarnate Word.
Notable concert and operatic roles credits include: Verdi Requiem, Mahler Symphony No. 2, Brahms Requiem, Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme, Mozart's Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Massenet's Cendrillon (Cinderella), Floyd's Susannah, Stravinsky's Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress, as well as Krystyna Zyvulska, a Holocaust survivor in Jake Heggie’s one-act opera, Another Sunrise. Sarah holds degrees from Trinity University and the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University.