ABOUT

Sarah began singing while running wild outside on the Indiana farm where they grew up, hollering top 100 country hits at the wide midwestern sky. Although a Hoosier at heart, Sarah now lives in Houston and has called the Gulf Coast home for the past decade.

Hailed as “a musical and theatrical joy” for their performances onstage, Sarah treasures their opportunity to sing on opera stages across the US (The Gazette, 2023). Up next, Sarah will reprise the role of Mercédès in Carmen, making her company debut with North Carolina Opera. Last season, Sarah had the joy of debuting multiple lead roles: Carmen in Carmen with Charlottesville Opera and Rosina in The Barber of Seville with Park City Opera in Utah.

During the 2024-25 Season, Sarah completed a Young Artist Residency with Opera Memphis. Sarah had the opportunity in Memphis to perform as Endimione in Cavalli’s La Calisto for the National Opera America Conference, as Mercédès in Carmen (covering the title role), and as the solo performer in Gregg Kallor’s new chamber opera The Tell-Tale Heart. Sarah’s prior Young Artist experience includes two seasons at Central City Opera as an Apprentice Artist where they performed Gertrude in Roméo et Julietteas well as covered Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus.

Sarah’s recent concert repertoire includes the Alto Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, where she also performed as Mezzo Soloist in the Mozart Requiem. Sarah appeared in J.S.Bach’s Cantatas BWV 131 and BWV 80 with Mercury Chamber Orchestra, and as the Mezzo Soloist in a fully-staged interpretation of J.S. Bach’s Ich habe genug (BWV 82) with Ars Lyrica Houston.

Sarah is honored to have been recognized by numerous acclaimed vocal competitions. Last season, Sarah was one of few National Semi-Finalists for the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Solo Competition with the Oratorio Society of New York. Sarah was grateful to win 2nd Prize in the Dallas Opera Biennial Vocal Competition as well as 2nd Prize in the American Council for Polish Culture Vocal Competition. Other recent awards include Houston District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and 2nd Place in both the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston’s Career Grant Competition and the San Antonio Tuesday Musical Club’s Young Artist Competition.

Sarah completed their Masters of Music in Vocal Performance in 2021 at the University of Houston where they had the opportunity to perform many leading operatic roles, including the title role in La Cenerentola, Nancy in Albert Herring, Dinah in Trouble and Tahiti, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Venus in Orpheus in the Underworld.

Outside of the theater, Sarah can be found knitting and sewing for hours on end, falling off of climbing routes, and (only partially) following new recipes in their kitchen.