The Kathleen Ferrier Awards
Winner - Sarah-Jane Brandon
Winner of the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier Competition, soprano Sarah-Jane Brandon studied at the Royal College of Music and was a participant in the 2011 Salzburg Festival's Young Singers Project.
Final Auditions, Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, 24 April 2009
Recent concert engagements have included Crobyle in Massenet's Thaïs with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis at the Edinburgh Festival; Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the London Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink; Elijah with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Kurt Masur; Mozart's Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons and Mahler's Symphony no. 4 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko.
Her engagements this season and beyond include Haydn's Nelson Mass with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Mahler's Symphony no. 4 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sylvain Cambreling; Mozart concert arias at the Wigmore Hall with Ian Page and the Classical Opera Company (of which she is an Associate Artist) and Berg's Sieben frühe Lieder with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner.
On the opera stage she will sing Contessa Le nozze di Figaro for Glyndebourne on Tour; Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte for the Rome Opera and Micäela Carmen for the Deutsche Oper, Berlin.
In recital her appearances include Trinity College Cambridge and the Leeds Lieder Festival with Malcolm Martineau; the Musée d'Orsay and Birmingham's Barber Institute with Simon Lepper and the Wigmore Hall and the Buxton and Oxford Lieder Festivals with Gary Matthewman.
She studies with Janis Kelly.
September 2011 / KC
Photo credits: Robert Piwko