Dublin-born soprano Sarah Power graduated from the National Opera Studio, London in June 2009 and continues to study with teacher Susan McCulloch. Previously she completed the Guildhall Opera Course, a Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal Performance 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 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, An Italian Soprano (cover)/Capriccio, Leonora (cover)/The Long Christmas Dinner (GSMD), Lydie/Pénélope (Wexford Festival Opera), Clorinda (cover)/La Cenerentola (RNCM), and opera scenes as Tytania, Ilia, Gretel, Adina, Manon, Sophie, Anne Truelove & Miss Wordsworth.

Some of Sarah’s recent performances have included Handel’s Messiah with the Bray Choral Society, Mozart’s Regina Coeli and CPE Bach’s Magnificat with the Stour Singers, Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate with the Barnet Symphony Orchestra, solo recitals in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square and St. James’s, Piccadilly, 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, Graham Clark, Joyce di Donato, Carlo Rizzi, Michael Chance, Andreas Scholl, Rosalind Plowright and Tom Krause. 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, the DIT Gold Medal for Excellence, and a nomination by Lyric FM (Irl.) for a European Broadcasting Award.

Future engagements include Vivaldi's Gloria in the Royal Albert Hall (conducted by Sir David Willcocks), Nannetta/Falstaff for Diva Opera, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Huntingdonshire Philharmonic, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Bournemouth Bach Choir, and solo recitals in York, London, Bray and Vienna.

Sarah’s studies are kindly supported by the Irish Arts Council.