Born in Yorkshire, Sarah Fox is one of the leading English sopranos of her generation. Educated at Giggleswick School, London University and the Royal College of Music, she won the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 1997 and the John Christie Award in 2000. Versatile and with a voice that has grown in size and warmth from the Baroque repertoire in which she made her name, to encompass Lieder, Richard Strauss and the some of the heavier Mozart roles, she is equally at home in song, opera, oratorio and musical theatre.

Her extensive international concert career includes engagements with the Academy of Ancient Music, Berlin Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Concerto Cologne, Halle (including the 2013 Last Night of the Halle Proms), Minnesota Orchestra, Philharmonia, and the San Francisco Symphony, under conductors including Bolton, Hickox, Maazel, Mackerras, Pappano and Rattle. She has appeared at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh International Festival and been part of the immensely popular John Wilson Orchestra Hollywood Musicals concerts, both at the Proms and on tour. She has starred in a Mario Lanza tribute on BBC Radio, and performed concerts in Europe with Rufus Wainwright. A frequent guest of the Classical Opera Company, she regularly sings with them and with others at Wigmore Hall.

Operatic highlights include Asteria/Tamerlano for Covent Garden, Munich & Barcelona (opposite Plácido Domingo); Zerlina/Don Giovanni for Covent Garden, Glyndebourne & Cincinnati; Susanna/Le Nozze di Figaro for Glyndebourne & The Royal Danish Opera; Mimi/La Boheme & Merab/Saul for Opera North; Michal/Saul & Eurydice/Orphee et Eurydice in Munich; Ilia/Idomeneo with De Vlaamse Opera; and Lucy Lockitt/The Beggar’s Opera for Covent Garden.

In recital, Sarah works closely with Malcolm Martineau with whom she made her debut at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. She has recorded her debut solo disc with him for release later this year. She has also recorded Poulenc Songs with Graham Johnson, another regular recital colleague, for Hyperion.

Her discography also includes Mahler’s 4th Symphony (Philharmonia/Mackerras), and Mozart’s early singspiel, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (Classical Opera Company/Page) both for Signum Classics; Leighton’s 2nd Symphony (BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Hickox), Vaughan Williams’ Christmas Music & Britten’s Owen Wingrave (CLS/Hickox) and Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera (CLS/Curnyn) for Chandos; and “That’s Entertainment” (John Wilson Orchestra/Wilson) for EMI Classics.