Sarah Pelletier, soprano

Soprano Sarah Pelletier has performed at a number of the world's leading music festivals such as the Spoleto Festival USA, Bard Music Festival, and Aldeburgh Festival. She has participated in the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival and the Vocal Fellowship Program at Tanglewood. She recently completed a tour of Madama Butterfly and Peter Grimes with Maestro Seiji Ozawa to Japan, China, and Italy with performances at the Saito Kinen Festival and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. This September, Ms. Pelletier made her Kennedy Center debut on the Millennium Stage. Last spring, she made her Carnegie Hall debut, performing Mozart Vesperae Solennes and Rutter Mass of the Children .

Ms. Pelletier has appeared in opera productions with Opera North, Opera Theater of Philadelphia, Opera-Aperta of Boston, and the Aldeburgh Festival, UK. Her operatic roles have included the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro , Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte , Mimí in La Bohème , Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream , and Lady Billows in Albert Herring . She has collaborated on these productions with many esteemed conductors and directors such as Seiji Ozawa, David Kneuss, Drew Minter, James Robert Carson, and Craig Smith.

As a concert soloist, she has performed with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Garden State Philharmonic, Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra, Princeton Pro Musica, and Westminster Community Orchestra of New Jersey. In the Boston area, she has performed with the Cambridge Symphony, Hingham Symphony, Emmanuel Music, Coro Allegro, and New England Classical Singers. Her recent performances have included Brahms's Requiem , Haydn's The Creation , Mozart's Requiem and C minor Mass , Handel's Alexander's Feast and Messiah at the Washington National Cathedral.

Her interest in contemporary music has led to premieres by Howard Frazin, John Goodman, James Yannatos, and Arlene Zallman as well as performances under the direction of Lukas Foss, Robert Spano, and John Harbison. She has performed on many contemporary music series including the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Composers in Red Sneakers, the "Music in Time Series" at Spoleto Festival USA, and Santa Fe New Music. Ms. Pelletier has been featured on the BBC radio broadcast Live from Tanglewood and has recorded Britten's Te Deum in C under Joseph Flummerfelt for Chesky Records.