Praised by the press for her “richness and roundness of tone [and] considerable depth of phrasing," Sara MacKimmie is a Washington, DC-based soprano who specializes in early, ensemble and contemporary music.
This season Sara looks forward to her debut with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and the Michigan State University choirs singing Vivaldi's Gloria and Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem. She will also make appearances with the Academy of Sacred Drama in New York, Kinnara Ensemble in Princeton, New Jersey and Atlanta, and with Brevitas in California. She also sings weekly at the Basilica of National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
In 2016-2017, Sara made her debut with the Denver Early Music Consort singing Couperin and sang engagements in Maryland and DC with Mountainside Baroque, Third Practice and the Washington Bach Consort. In recent seasons, Sara has performed cantatas by Bach, Telemann, and Handel with New York Baroque Incorporated and Monica Huggett at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and for the San Diego Early Music Society. She has sung the roles of Speranza in Bassani’s Giona, Ozia in Scarlatti’s La Giuditta, and Daniel in Stradella's Susanna 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 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, 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 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.
This season Sara looks forward to her debut with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and the Michigan State University choirs singing Vivaldi's Gloria and Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem. She will also make appearances with the Academy of Sacred Drama in New York, Kinnara Ensemble in Princeton, New Jersey and Atlanta, and with Brevitas in California. She also sings weekly at the Basilica of National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
In 2016-2017, Sara made her debut with the Denver Early Music Consort singing Couperin and sang engagements in Maryland and DC with Mountainside Baroque, Third Practice and the Washington Bach Consort. In recent seasons, Sara has performed cantatas by Bach, Telemann, and Handel with New York Baroque Incorporated and Monica Huggett at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and for the San Diego Early Music Society. She has sung the roles of Speranza in Bassani’s Giona, Ozia in Scarlatti’s La Giuditta, and Daniel in Stradella's Susanna 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 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, 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 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.