Titans Rising Concert Series and Ensemble for Early Music
Artistic Director and Soprano
Since 2014 Sarah has directed and performed almost two dozen projects for the TITANS RISING concert series in Berlin, Germany. These ensemble projects focus on vocal repertoire for 2-6 voices of the 17th century and earlier. Some of the concerts she has programmed and performed include “Concerto delle donne di Berlin,” Giacomo Carissimi’s oratorio “Historia di Jephte,” “Il pastor fido” madrigals for 5 voices and continuo, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Sister-Act,” a program of music by 17th-century nuns.
Ensemble Voix et Violes
This ensemble of three singers and three viols focuses on the Flemish repertoire of the 15th century. The period instruments were built by Richard Earle specifically for this late medieval and early renaissance music. Under the direction of musicologist Dr. Clemens Goldberg, this ensemble gives concerts of chansons and sacred music by composers such as Binchois, Ockeghem, Walter Frye and of previously unknown works from the Leuven Chansonnier, discovered in 2014.
Arianna: A Portrait – Solo baroque monody with theorbo
Claudio Monteverdi composed an opera (L’Arianna, 1608) on the story of Ariadne, who was abandoned by Thesues on the island of Naxos, but excepting one aria, the opera in its entirety is lost. The “Lamento d’Arianna” was so wildly popular across Europe that his “hit single,” the lament from the opera, was found in almost every musical household. Fortunate for us, because we have this gem of monody to enjoy 400 years later. Constructed around this lament, this recital draws on Monteverdi’s monody and other composers of his time to paint Ariadne’s story in 4 scenes.
A Midsummernight’s Dream 
This solo program portraying different characters from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummernight’s Dream” features English music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Charming music by Purcell, Dowland and others for soprano, recorder, viola da gamba and cembalo.
Other projects include singing as a soloist for oratorio and concert projects with choirs, as well as performing Lieder with pianists Sami Väänänen and Susan Wang, among others. Interested in musical collaboration? Please visit the Contact page.