Sarah Tynan FRAM, LRAM, DipRAM Opera

Biography

Sarah is well established as one of the most exciting and versatile singers of her generation. With a wide range of repertoire from Baroque to Contemporary, Bel Canto to Music Theatre, she has worked regularly with many of the leading opera companies, orchestras and ensembles throughout the UK, Europe and around the world and was included in the Evening Standard’s list of the UK’s most influential artists.

She has performed over 60 principal operatic roles with notable performances including Handel’s Cleopatra, Semele, Romilda, Merab and Ginevra, Mozart’s Elvira, Pamina, Susanna, Despina, Zerlina and Ilia, Britten’s Governess and Tytania, Henze’s Manon, Adams’ Pat Nixon, Lehar’s Hannah Glawari, both Gluck and Glass’s Euridice, Strauss’s Sophie, three world premieres -Hari in Dai Fujikura’s Solaris, Sharon Disney in Philip Glass’s The Perfect American and Megan in James MacMillan’s The Sacrifice, Beethoven’s Marzellina, Rossini’s Rosina and Fiorilla, and Donizetti’s Adina and Lucia di Lammermoor.

Equally in demand in concert repertoire, performances include Brahms and Mozart Requiem, Carmina Burana, Mahler Symphony 2, 4, and 8, Haydn’s Creation, Bach Matthew and John Passions, Poulenc Stabat Mater, A Child of Our Time, Wigglesworth AugenLieder, Unsuk Chin’s Kala, Dallapiccola’s Partita, Handel’s Messiah, Solomon, Saul, Beethoven Symphony 9 and Britten’s Les Illuminations, with BBCSO, BBCPhil, CBSO, LPO, LSO, RPO, BBCNOW, Philharmonia, Gabrieli Consort, The Sixteen, Bach Choir, Mostly Mozart Festival Lincoln Centre, Bergen Philharmonic,  Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Maggio Musicale, Aldeburgh Festival, Edinburgh Festival and at the Proms.

Sarah is also a passionate educator. She has run her own private studio for many years and before joining Guildhall taught for 4 years at Royal College of Music. Her students have enjoyed much success working throughout the UK, Europe and Young Artist programmes including Aix-en Provence, International Meistersinger Akademie, Strasbourg, Georg Solti Academia and Bayerische Staatsoper.