Recent Guest Artists Include
Sarah Pelletier, soprano
Praised by the Boston Globe for possessing “virtues of voice, intelligence and musicianship… with purity of tone and expression,” soprano Sarah Pelletier demonstrates these qualities in all her performances. She has performed as guest artist at Spoleto Festival USA, Bard Music Festival, and Aldeburgh Festival. Highlights of past seasons include a solo recital on the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Berg’s Wozzeck and Schwantner’s Magabunda with New England Philharmonic, Bach’s Mass in B minor with San Francisco Bach Choir, Handel’s Messiah with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the title role in Schumann’s Genoveva and Handel’s Ariodante with Emmanuel Music, and Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd with Princeton Festival Opera. Ms. Pelletier has toured with Maestro Seiji Ozawa to Japan, China, and Italy with performances of Madama Butterfly and Peter Grimes at the Saito Kinen Festival and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. She received Vocal Fellowships at Tanglewood Music Center and at the Ravinia Festival. Her 2009-2010 season includes Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Princeton Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Benjamin Zander and Handel’s Messiah with Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Ms. Pelletier has given solo recitals at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Goethe Institute. Her interest in contemporary music has led to premieres by Howard Frazin, John Goodman, James Yannatos, and Arlene Zallman, with performances under the direction of Lukas Foss, Robert Spano, and John Harbison. She has performed for Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Composers in Red Sneakers, “Music in Time Series” at Spoleto Festival USA, and with Santa Fe New Music. Ms. Pelletier is recorded on Chesky Records.