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Dublin-born Sarah Power graduated in 2008 from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Opera Course, where she studied with Susan McCulloch. She continues to study with Sue during her time at the National Opera Studio. Prior to her studies in London Sarah completed a First-Class Honours Degree and Masters at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin, under Anne-Marie O’Sullivan, receiving the Gold Medal for excellence, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, studying with Susan Roper.

Sarah’s operatic roles include 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) and Clorinda (cover)/La Cenerentola (RNCM), and excerpts as Manon, Sophie, Anne Truelove, Miss Wordsworth, Alcina and Gilda.

Other performance experience includes Jenkins’ The Armed Man and Brahms’ Requiem, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Mozart’s Missa Solemnis in C with the orchestra of Saint Cecilia in the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, soprano soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, Stravinsky’s Four Russian Songs with the RNCM Wind Orchestra, Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras with the Miro Chamber Orchestra, a German concert tour with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Choir and solo recitals in the John Field Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Siena and Florence, Peterskirche, Karlskirche, Beethovensaal and the Irish Embassy, Vienna. Sarah has worked in masterclasses with Joyce di Donato, Carlo Rizzi, Michael Chance, Andreas Scholl, Rosalind Plowright and Tom Krause.

Notable awards have included a Sybil Tutton Award administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the RDS €10,000 Music Bursary, a Peter Moores Foundation Study Award, the Dermot Troy Trophy, Geoghegan Cup and Percy Whitehead Cup (Feis Ceoil, Dublin), the John McCormack Society Bursary and a nomination by Lyric FM (Irl.) for a European Broadcasting Award. During the academic year 2007-8 Sarah recorded a series of podcasts for Classic fM, which followed her progress during her second year on the Guildhall Opera Course.

Future engagements include solo recitals in Wesley Chapel, Harrogate, Chatsworth House, the Mermaid Theatre, Bray, and the Irish Embassy in Vienna, Opera Galas with Clonter Opera and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Cardiff, and roles in Holst’s The Wandering Scholar and Vaughn-Williams’ Riders to the Sea for Glasthule Opera (Irl.).

Sarah has received generous support from the Irish Arts Council, Bray Town Council, Austrian Embassy in Ireland, Friends of Covent Garden and British American Tobacco.

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