Praised by the press for her “richness and roundness of tone" and "on-the-button intonation," Sara MacKimmie is a Washington, DC-based soprano who specializes in historical performance and ensemble music.
This season Sara looks forward to making solo appearances on the Music Before 1800 series with the Academy of Sacred Drama and on the Music at Morris-Jumel series in New York, singing Poulenc with The Thirteen in DC, Italian madrigals with the Washington Bach Consort, and several concerts with Kinnara Ensemble in Princeton, New Jersey and Atlanta. She also sings weekly at the Basilica of National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Recent performances include her debut with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra singing Vivaldi's Gloria and Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem and concerts with the Denver Early Music Consort, Mountainside Baroque, Third Practice and the Washington Bach Consort. Sara has performed cantatas by Bach, Telemann, and Handel with New York Baroque Incorporated and Monica Huggett at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and for the San Diego Early Music Society. She has sung many oratorio roles with New York’s Academy of Sacred Drama, joined the Peabody Consort for Sephardic music in Baltimore, and performed with Corda Nova Baroque, singing Clerambault's dramatic solo cantata Medée for Washington DC's Baroque Bonanza.
Other highlights include working with Baltimore's New Consort, a lutesong recital at Juilliard with Kevin Payne, a Handel recital with Philadelphia’s Tempesta di Mare, several concerts of contemporary music with DC’s Great Noise Ensemble, including Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Andriessen’s De Materie, as well as roles in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring with Baltimore’s hexaCollective. She has also participated in master classes at the Boston Early Music Festival and through the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, including a performance of Tallis' Spem in Alium with the Tallis Scholars.
Sara holds masters degrees in voice and early music at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Ah Young Hong. While at Peabody, she coached with Eileen Cornett, Adam Pearl, and her current primary coach, lutenist Richard Stone. A native of Michigan, Sara obtained her undergraduate degree in voice at Michigan State University.
Outside of music, Sara's interests include spending too much time on the internet and watching trashy reality shows.
This season Sara looks forward to making solo appearances on the Music Before 1800 series with the Academy of Sacred Drama and on the Music at Morris-Jumel series in New York, singing Poulenc with The Thirteen in DC, Italian madrigals with the Washington Bach Consort, and several concerts with Kinnara Ensemble in Princeton, New Jersey and Atlanta. She also sings weekly at the Basilica of National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Recent performances include her debut with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra singing Vivaldi's Gloria and Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem and concerts with the Denver Early Music Consort, Mountainside Baroque, Third Practice and the Washington Bach Consort. Sara has performed cantatas by Bach, Telemann, and Handel with New York Baroque Incorporated and Monica Huggett at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and for the San Diego Early Music Society. She has sung many oratorio roles with New York’s Academy of Sacred Drama, joined the Peabody Consort for Sephardic music in Baltimore, and performed with Corda Nova Baroque, singing Clerambault's dramatic solo cantata Medée for Washington DC's Baroque Bonanza.
Other highlights include working with Baltimore's New Consort, a lutesong recital at Juilliard with Kevin Payne, a Handel recital with Philadelphia’s Tempesta di Mare, several concerts of contemporary music with DC’s Great Noise Ensemble, including Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Andriessen’s De Materie, as well as roles in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring with Baltimore’s hexaCollective. She has also participated in master classes at the Boston Early Music Festival and through the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, including a performance of Tallis' Spem in Alium with the Tallis Scholars.
Sara holds masters degrees in voice and early music at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Ah Young Hong. While at Peabody, she coached with Eileen Cornett, Adam Pearl, and her current primary coach, lutenist Richard Stone. A native of Michigan, Sara obtained her undergraduate degree in voice at Michigan State University.
Outside of music, Sara's interests include spending too much time on the internet and watching trashy reality shows.