Praised by the press for her "grandiose voice" and “richness and roundness of tone [and] considerable depth of phrasing," Sara MacKimmie is an up-and-coming soprano who specializes in early, ensemble and contemporary music.
In 2016-2017, Sara looks forward to her debut with the Denver Early Music Consort and engagements in Maryland and DC with Mountainside Baroque, Third Practice and the Washington Bach Consort. She also sings weekly at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, with whom she will travel to Rome for a week-long choir tour.
Last season Sara was delighted to perform cantatas by Bach and Telemann with New York Baroque Incorporated and Monica Huggett at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and for the San Diego Early Music Society, and returned later in the season for Handel's virtuoso solo cantata Delirio amoroso. She also performed Stradella's Susanna with New York's Academy of Sacred Drama, joined the Peabody Consort for Sephardic music in Baltimore, and sang for the first time with Corda Nova Baroque, performing Clerambault's Medée for Washington DC's Baroque Bonanza.
In the summer of 2015, Sara was privileged to spend two weeks studying and performing several of the early cantatas of Bach with Helmuth Rilling at the Weimar Bach Academy in Germany. Other recent 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, a program of Tenebres settings at Georgetown, contemporary music with the 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 completed 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.
In 2016-2017, Sara looks forward to her debut with the Denver Early Music Consort and engagements in Maryland and DC with Mountainside Baroque, Third Practice and the Washington Bach Consort. She also sings weekly at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, with whom she will travel to Rome for a week-long choir tour.
Last season Sara was delighted to perform cantatas by Bach and Telemann with New York Baroque Incorporated and Monica Huggett at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and for the San Diego Early Music Society, and returned later in the season for Handel's virtuoso solo cantata Delirio amoroso. She also performed Stradella's Susanna with New York's Academy of Sacred Drama, joined the Peabody Consort for Sephardic music in Baltimore, and sang for the first time with Corda Nova Baroque, performing Clerambault's Medée for Washington DC's Baroque Bonanza.
In the summer of 2015, Sara was privileged to spend two weeks studying and performing several of the early cantatas of Bach with Helmuth Rilling at the Weimar Bach Academy in Germany. Other recent 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, a program of Tenebres settings at Georgetown, contemporary music with the 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 completed 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.
