​Nominated for the Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by an Individual, Sara is the 2024 winner of the Wirth Vocal Prize, a previous District Winner and Regional Encouragement Award Winner from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, a three-time laureate of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques, and a recent alumna of Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium Young Artists. An avid interpreter of new music lauded at the Eckhardt-Grammaté Competition, she enjoys close collaborations with composers including James Rolfe, Danika Lorèn, Cecilia Livingston, and Amy Brandon.
The 2025/2026 season sees Sara in returns to the Little Opera Company of Winnipeg as Addie in Ricky Ian Gordon/Royce Vavrek’s The House Without a Christmas Tree, and debuts with the Victoria Philharmonic Choir in British Columbia, the Toronto Beach Chorale and Winnipeg’s Dead of Winter. She reprises her critically acclaimed recital in a dark blue night with the pianist Isabelle David for the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg and performs Cage d’oiseau, a recital of Messiaen, Debussy and Bédard with Jean Marchand for the Chapelle musicale du Bon-Pasteur. In the spring, New Focus Records will release her recording of James Rolfe’s O Greenest Branch conducted by David Fallis as well as her performance of Amy Brandon’s The Bond, a song cycle written for her with poems by Miriam Waddington.
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Sara began her career singing Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) with the Dayton Opera in Ohio and Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) with the Aspen Opera Theater, as well as Mahler's Fourth Symphony under the baton of the late Maestro Lorin Maazel. She has created roles including the Hummingbird in Goulet/Yahgulanaas’ The Flight of the Hummingbird for Vancouver Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria— returning to Pacific Opera the following season for Erika Raum’s The Garden of Alice—Henri for Tapestry Opera’s Bandits in the Valley, and Anne Frank in Cecilia Livingston’s Singing Only Softly, both of which earned her Dora nominations.
Concert soloist engagements have included work with the Dayton Philharmonic, the Grand Philharmonic Choir, Vienna’s Concentus Musicus, Thirteen Strings Ottawa, the Amadeus Choir, and the Bach-Elgar Choir. She collaborates regularly with the pianists Isabelle David and Alexey Shafirov, and has given recitals for the Canadian Opera Company Free Concert Series, Concerts Lachine, and the Chapelle musicale du Bon-Pasteur. She recently performed a recital tour of mainland China as well as residencies in Germany and France with the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques. ​
David Jaeger, The Wholenote Magazine
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Sara holds degrees from the University of Toronto (Hon. Voice Perf., Eng. Literature Minor) and Roosevelt University (M.Mus., Siragusa Endowed Scholarship). Her studies have received generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Fondation Jacqueline Desmarais, and the Hnatyshyn Foundation. She is a certified yoga teacher and a founding board member of the charity Sharing Notes, which brings free musical performances to hospitals and prisons. Her first opera libretto, an adaptation of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market with music by Danika Lorèn, will be workshopped by the University of Toronto Opera School in January. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at McGill University researching the Austrian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Emmy Heim, and is the editor of Art Song Canada e-magazine.
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