Winner of the Flora Nielsen Prize for French Song, mezzo-soprano Sarah Anne Champion is an established performer of Opera, Oratorio, Recital and Consort Singing. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where, in 2019, she completed her Masters with distinction and was awarded the Nancy Nuttall Early Music Prize.

Operatically, Sarah has worked with Waterperry Opera Festival since their inaugural season in 2018, performing Julia Bertram in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park. Recent highlights as a concert soloist include performing for the Oxford International Song Festival’s Spring Song in 2022 and as the Alto and Second Soprano Soloist for Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the Cadogan Hall in 2023.

She sings with the Fieri Consort, who premiered the lost works of Maddalena Casulana, newly-discovered after 400 years, live on BBC Radio 3 – soon to be released on commercial disc, and also with critically acclaimed group, The Marian Consort, whose highlights include a recent tour to Japan, an award winning disc of Vicente Lusitano Motets, and performances live on Radio 3’s In Tune, for the BBC proms and at The Wigmore Hall.