offerings for adult singers
Learn about ways to work with me so you can reach your unique goals.
Ongoing Private Voice Lessons
Lessons on a bi-weekly or monthly basis to give you the consistency and support you need to reach your singing goals!
you get:
1 or 2 LESSONS PER MONTH
A WARMUP LIBRARY TO SUPPORT YOU IN-BETWEEN LESSONS
SPOTLIGHT SESSIONS: PRIVATE VIDEO FEEDBACK TO SUPPORT YOU EVEN WHEN YOU'RE NOT IN THE STUDIO
WE WORK FOR A MINIMUM OF EITHER 3 OR 6 MONTHS AND ONWARDS FROM THERE TO ENSURE YOU REACH THE NEXT LEVEL IN YOUR SINGING
Small Group Voice Lessons
Starts January 22nd
Our Adult Group Voice Lessons offer a supportive, confidence-building space for singers who want to strengthen their technique, better understand their voice, and grow through consistent, guided practice.
This small group (ideally six to eight singers) meets weekly for focused work on breath, vocal fundamentals, and healthy vocal technique, with time to apply what you’re learning.
Perfect for adult singers looking for structure, community, and momentum in a warm, encouraging environment.
If you’re interested in joining us, please fill out the form below.
I can’t wait to connect with you!
Learn how to realize your talent, sing with confidence, and believe in yourself.
“our work made such an enormous difference”
“Our lessons are making an enormous difference and are helping me to feel more at ease with my voice.”
-Carolyn
Coming in 2026
Behind the Notes:
Classical Music from the Inside Out
A Music Lover’s Guide to Classical Music
Dive into Classical Music like an Insider
Discover the beauty of classical music in a whole new way. From beloved masterworks to chamber music, soprano Sarah Hawkey will guide you through the rich oeuvre of classical music—sharing the artistry & insights that bring classical music to life and take you behind the notes.
Learn to hear classical music like never before
This series comes directly from my passion for classical music. Across all periods and composers, I’m wildly enthusiastic about it. To me, classical music is the one genre that ironically never gets old.
Some of the most meaningful moments in my professional career have come from conversations with colleagues about what we hear in the music we perform and how it inspires us. Behind the Notes is my way of sharing that experience with you.
Over eight weeks, we’ll:
- Return to timeless works and hear them with fresh ears
- Share the kinds of conversations musicians have with each other backstage
- Listen more deeply, noticing the musical & thematic layers that enrich the experience
I hope our time together will make classical music feel relevant and alive to you. I want you to feel as connected to this music—so old, yet so vital today—as I do.
A letter from Sarah, Your Curator
This series comes directly from my passion for classical music. I’ve been enthusiastic about it my entire life. I can experience a piece a hundred times, and each time I revisit it, hear it anew. I want that for you, too!
The conversations I’ve had with colleagues about what we hear in the music, as the experts who devote our careers to it, are fascinating. Behind the Notes is my way of sharing that same experience with you.
If you’ve ever felt that “lit-up” sensation when hearing a favorite symphonic theme, a beloved aria, or even one unforgettable chord, you know the joy of getting behind the notes. I hope through our time together, you’ll experience more and more of those moments—and that our conversations will make the music you already love come to life in new ways.
My own path into classical music began at 13 years old. I stumbled across an LP of Leontyne Price singing Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs. It was the most virtuosic, thrilling vocal music I had ever heard, and it opened the door to the vast world of classical voice, whereas before then I simply thought that Julie Andrews was the most “classical” it got.
At the same time, I was studying violin, and spent my teenage years immersed in chamber music and orchestral repertoire. I fell in love with the great violin concertos—Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Barber—as well as Bach’s unaccompanied violin and cello suites. These works shaped me just as studying classical voice did, and gave me a deep appreciation for symphonic & instrumental music.
After graduating from Conservatory, I moved to New York City and pursued opera and art song, but was also drawn in new directions. I worked with living composers in contemporary music—thrilling collaborations where the composer could sit in the room and shape their work with me. I was also welcomed into the early music community, singing Medieval song, Renaissance polyphony, and the vibrant chamber music of the baroque era- which ultimately captivated me and is what I specialize in performing today.
In this series, I want to bring you into all of these worlds—familiar works, hidden treasures, and unexpected connections. Through our time together, I hope your love of classical music will deepen as we go behind the notes.
Sincerely,
Sarah
Classical soprano Sarah Hawkey invites audiences into the heart of classical music with Behind the Notes: Classical Music from the Inside Out, a listening and lecture series that unpacks the musical complexity, stories, history, and expressive depth behind beloved works of the classical oeuvre.
Known for bringing warmth and clarity to complex ideas, she bridges the worlds of performer and listener, offering fresh insight into how classical music lives and breathes for today’s audiences.
Sarah has performed with organizations such as the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Bard Summerscape Music Festival, and in countless performances at Carnegie Hall. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, on NPR, WNYC, and PBS Great Performances.
She also had the pleasure of being in the original cast of Ellen Reid’s p r i s m, produced by Beth Morrison Projects at LA Opera and the PROTOTYPE Festival, which was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
A specialist in baroque performance, as soprano soloist her credits include numerous cantatas by J. S. Bach as well as his St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, B Minor Mass; Vivaldi’s cantata for soprano soloist In furore iustissimae irae; and Handel’s Messiah.
Her debut solo album, featuring the music of 17th-century Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi, is underway and planned for release in 2027, followed by an album of English baroque works by Henry Purcell & John Dowland.
Sarah is also a champion of contemporary classical music. Her world premiere performances include Amie Morrison’s Surprisingly Poetic Moments from an Otherwise Typical Hiking Guidebook (inspired by her love of Yosemite’s high-country wilderness), Pamela Stein-Lynde’s Trespass (poetry by Sokunthary Svay about growing up as a refugee in New York City) and I will not go, and Gisle Kverndokk’s opera Upon This Handful of Earth. She also premiered numerous choral works with the Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street and many other professional choral ensembles in the US.
Through her Fairfield County voice studio located in Weston Center, Sarah has become a mentor for the next generation of singers, establishing solid technique in the lineage of bel canto pedagogy, while nurturing artistry, musicality, and mindset.
Whether performing on stage, teaching voice, or in conversation with today’s audiences, Sarah is devoted to making classical music feel relevant and alive. She wants contemporary listeners to feel as connected to this music—so old, yet so vital today—as she does herself.
kind words from our community
"Sarah gave me the tools and confidence to perform my first ever recital; a tribute for my mother! "
"Sarah helped me achieve your own personal voice goals and more!"
"I SOUND TOTALLY DIFFERENT!"
“Before working with Sarah, I had sung in front of zero people, not even my family. A friend of mine went away to college – and came back after I’d had a bunch of lessons with Sarah, and was totally shocked at how my voice had changed and grown in a good way!”
"our work made such an enormous difference"
“It was so apparent that our lessons were making an enormous difference and it helped me to feel more at ease. Our lessons have enriched my life in many ways including sharing an enthusiasm for sacred music. “
