The Kathleen Ferrier Awards

Winners

Sarah Power

Dublin-born soprano Sarah Power graduated from the National Opera Studio, London last year and continues to study with teacher Susan McCulloch. Previously she completed the Guildhall Opera Course, a Postgraduate Diploma at the RNCM, Manchester, under the tutelage of Susan Roper, and a Degree and Masters in Music Performance at the DIT Conservatory, Dublin, where she studied with Anne-Marie O’Sullivan.

Sarah’s operatic roles include Lydie/Pénélope (Wexford Festival Opera), Alison/The Wandering Scholar, Cathleen/Riders to the Sea (Glasthule Opera), Pamina/Die Zauberflöte, Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, Berenice/L’occasione fa il ladro, Pauline/La Vie Parisienne (GSMD), Clorinda (cover)/La Cenerentola (RNCM) and opera scenes as Tytania, Ilia, Gretel, Adina, Manon, Sophie & Anne Truelove.

Recent performances have included Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Huntingdonshire Philharmonic, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Bournemouth Bach Choir, Mozart’s Regina Coeli and CPE Bach’s Magnificat with the Stour Singers, solo recitals in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James’s, Piccadilly, the Bösendorfer-Saal, Vienna and St. Mary’s, Perivale, Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai and Fauré’s Requiem for the Kings Lynn Festival and Iphise/Dardanus for the European Opera Centre, Crete.

Sarah has participated in masterclasses with Ann Murray, Joyce di Donato, Michael Chance, Andreas Scholl and Rosalind Plowright. Notable awards include a Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, a Sybil Tutton Award (MBF), the Audrey Strange Memorial Prize for a Singer of Promise (ROSL), the RDS Music Bursary of €10,000 and the DIT Gold Medal for Excellence. Sarah was a finalist in the 2010 Handel Singing Competition and was also awarded 2nd Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Singing Competition.

Future engagements include Vivaldi’s Gloria in the Royal Albert Hall (conducted by Sir David Willcocks), Nannetta/Falstaff for Diva Opera, Bach Cantatas No. 29 & 192 with the Thames Consort and Handel’s Messiah with the Leeds Philharmonic and Manchester Camerata.

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