SARAH MARIA SUN

Sarah Maria Sun stands among the foremost and most extraordinary performers on the contemporary music scene. A singer of exceptional range and versatility, her repertoire encompasses more than 2,000 works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including over 400 world premieres, alongside numerous songs, operas and oratorios. Norddeutscher Rundfunk has dedicated three portrait concerts to her.

Equally commanding in opera, music theatre and concert performance, Sun has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, Venice Biennale, and the festivals of Donaueschingen, Witten and Lucerne, as well as at Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Berlin, Kölner Philharmonie, Tonhalle Zurich, Philharmonie Luxembourg, and the Barbican Centre, to name but a few. Her operatic appearances extend from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra Bastille and Opéra Comique to the opera houses of Zurich, Basel, Dresden, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart. She has collaborated with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Susanna Mälkki and Iván Fischer, and with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern and Ensemble intercontemporain.

Her fearless portrayals of complex female characters have twice earned her nominations as Singer of the Year by Opernwelt, for Salvatore Sciarrino’s Lohengrin and Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychose. Among her music-theatre projects is the acclaimed AMOPERA with Holger Falk, Klangforum Wien and Needcompany, presented from the Wiener Konzerthaus and Hong Kong Arts Festival to the NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice.

Her discography comprises more than 30 recordings, several of them prize-winning; four releases were nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award in a single year. She was formerly first soprano of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, one of the world’s leading pioneers of contemporary vocal music.