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 the Vache Baroque Festival, and with Waterperry Opera Festival since their inaugural season in 2018, performing Julia Bertram in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park. Highlights as a concert soloist include performing for the Oxford International Song Festival’s Spring Song in 2022, as the Alto and Second Soprano Soloist for Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the Cadogan Hall in 2023.
She sings regularly with several groups of critical acclaim: the Fieri Consort, The Marian Consort, The Dunedin Consort and the Jervaulx Singers, as a consort singer and soloist with performances around the world, live on Radio 3’s In Tune, for the BBC proms and at The Wigmore Hall.
“Sarah Anne Champion, …, sang
“Können Tränen” with heartfelt sweetness”
The Arts Desk April 2025
“Sarah Anne Champion’s petulant,
fatally-overlooked Julia was beautifully observed.”
Bachtrack 2018