Sarah MoyerKnown for her “purity and flawless range” (South Florida Classical Review), soprano Sarah Moyer’s most recent and upcoming work as a concert artist includes St. John and St. Matthew Passions with Colorado Bach Ensemble, Handel’s Messiah with Bourbon Baroque, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Grant’s SALT (world premiere), as well as countless Bach cantatas with Emmanuel Music, and Monteverdi’s Lamento della Nympha with Skylark Vocal Ensemble. She has also performed as a soloist with the Cape Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, among others. She has performed world premieres by Harbison: No better time, Kallembach: Easter Oratorio, Theofanidis: Four Levertov Settings, and Runestad: The Hope of Loving, and American premieres by Melani: Teodora and Regina Coeli a5. and Nørgård: Nova Genitura and Seadrift.
As a choral artist, she appears with GRAMMY® nominated groups Seraphic Fire, Skylark, Conspirare, Clarion Music Society, True Concord, as well as Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Variant 6, Spire, Artefact, The Thirteen, and Ensemble Origo. She can be heard as a soloist on Skylark’s GRAMMY® nominated albums Seven Words from the Cross and Once Upon a Time, and is excited to have joined Variant 6 for their newest album Fall and Decline, music by Gregory Brown. During the pandemic, Sarah joined forces with Janet Stone and Clare McNamara to create a trio, specializing in music written for three voices, called Ourania. She is also a founding member of Illumine, a trio that consists of soprano, trumpet, and harp. Illumine is scheduled to go on tour in the spring of 2023. Sarah was a finalist in the 2019 Handel Aria Competition and is a 2015 recipient of the St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award. She received her Masters in Music from New England Conservatory of Music and her Bachelors in Music from Oklahoma State University. Sarah and her husband are enjoying their new digs in Denver, CO. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys hiking and competing in triathlons. During Covid-tide, she taught herself how to play the ukulele and made it her pandemic’s work to revive music from the Tin Pan Alley genre. www.sopranosarahmoyer.com |