a voice teacher with world-class performance experience

I’m an amazing voice teacher because I walk the walk myself.  I’ve been where you are (probably way worse off vocally!) and have had massive success in my singing career – and you can too.

what I believe…

I’ve devoted my life to mastering the art of singing, and here’s what I’ve learned along the way: 
To sing is to breathe love into the world. 
When we co-create art where each artist’s unique creative gifts are celebrated, music & theater become a model for greater world peace. 
Learning to master the art and craft of singing will shape you into a strong, courageous, confident, artful, self-expressed powerhouse, and if you harness your talent, you an open channel for creativity to flow through you.  
Sarah Hawkey Studio - Voice Lessons in Westport, Wilton, Weston, and Ridgefield, CT
My performances have been featured on PBS Great Performances, in the New York Times, on NPR, WNYC, WQXR, and two of my full-length solo performances have been streamed on WWFM.
I’ve had incredible experiences like singing at the Saltzburg Festival, Verbier Festival, singing at Carnegie Hall so many times I can’t even count (!), and even being in a Pulitzer Prize-winning world premiere at LA Opera.

so many memorable performances

these are my personal favorites…
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A PULITZER PRIZE!

In 2019, a dream collaboration came true when I made my debut with LA Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, and the Prototype Festival in a world premiere opera entitled p r i s m by an all-female writing team with all-female producers. p r i s m and its composer Ellen Reid won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2019, and I am thrilled to have been on the original cast recording. 

Voice Teacher, Sarah Hawkey, in her voice studio in Weston, CY

WORLD PREMIERES

I’m also passionate about giving voice to the work of living composers.  My world premieres include Child in the opera Upon This Handful of Earth by Gisle Kverndokk; Surprisingly Poetic Moments from an Otherwise Typical Hiking Guidebook, a song cycle by Abraham Z. Morrison written specifically for me based on my love of Yosemite National Park; and Trespass by the poet Sokunthary Svay & my frequent collaborator Pamela Stein-Lynde, about Sokunthary’s experience growing up as a refugee in New York City. 

EARLY MUSIC SOLOIST

Since the launch of my solo career in 2016, my solo appearances in early music have included the modern-day premiere of Freschi’s Giuditta, numerous works by J. S. Bach, as well as his St. John’s Passion, St. Matthew Passion & B Minor Mass; Vivaldi’s In furore iustissimae irae & Dixit Dominus; Scarlatti’s Lidio e Clori; Handel’s Messiah & Dixit Dominus; Mozart’s Mass in C minor & Requiem; and Haydn’s Mariazeller Messe & Creation Mass.

GRAMMY-NOMINATED COLLABORATIONS

I’ve also sung with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, the American Classical Orchestra, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, at the Bard Summerscape Music Festival, for the opening of The Shed in NYC, and I spent two seasons with the infamous Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the premiere choral ensemble in North America.  

RENOWNED CONDUCTORS & FESTIVALS

I’ve had the privilege singing with some of today’s most renowned during the choral artist chapter of my career.  My favorites have been the Oregon Bach Festival with Lars Ulrik Mortensen who directs Concerto Copenhagen; the Verbier Festival under Maestro Manfred Honeck; the Saltzurg Festival under Maestro Riccardo Muti; the Israel Philharmonic under Maestro Lorin Maazel, the New York Philharmonic under Maestro Alan Gilbert & Maestro Gianandrea Noseda, and the Mostly Mozart Festival with Maestro Louis Langrée.  

Classical soprano Sarah Hawkey performing a concert of baroque music