Sarah Brailey


Sarah Brailey
Hailed by The New York Times for her "radiant, liquid tone,” “exquisitely phrased,” and “sweetly dazzling” singing, soprano Sarah Brailey is in growing demand as a soloist and chamber music artist across all genres of music. She has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall with Steve Reich to the Hollywood Bowl with Kanye West and GRAMMY® Award-winning alternative-classical vocal band Roomful of Teeth. Highlights of Sarah’s current and recent seasons include Handel’s Messiah with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Charlotte Symphony; Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Colorado Symphony; George Benjamin’s Dream of the Song with Lorelei Ensemble and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Costanza in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata with the American Classical Orchestra; the world premiere of Daniel Felsenfeld’s Astrophysical Mass with Trinity Wall Street; John Zorn’s Madrigals at the Louvre Museum; Britten’s Les Illuminations with NOVUS NY; Handel's Silete Venti and Purcell's The Fairy Queen with The Handel and Haydn Society; Scott Gendel’s new oratorio Barbara Allen (written for Sarah); and Schoenberg's Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten with the Brooklyn Art Song Society.
Among Sarah’s awards are First Prize in the 2015 Madison Early Music Festival’s Handel Aria Competition and the Leopold Damrosch Award in the 2014 Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Solo Competition. Sarah has recorded with tUne-yArDs, Trinity Wall Street and Bang on a Can All-Stars (Julia Wolfe’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning work Anthracite Fields), and is featured on New York Polyphony’s 2014 GRAMMY®-nominated album Sing Thee Nowell.