Sarah Pelletier

Sarah Pelletier
soprano

Praised by The Boston Globe for possessing "virtues of voice, intelligence and musicianship… with purity of tone and expression", soprano Sarah Pelletier demonstrates these qualities in all her performances. She has performed as guest artist at Spoleto Festival USA, Bard Music Festival, and Aldeburgh Festival. Highlights of past seasons include a solo recital on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage; Berg's Wozzeck and Schwantner's Magabunda with New England Philharmonic; Bach's B minor Mass with San Francisco Bach Choir; Handel's Messiah with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; the title role in Schumann's Genoveva and Handel's Ariodante with Emmanuel Music; and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd with Princeton Festival Opera.

Ms. Pelletier has toured with Maestro Seiji Ozawa to Japan, China, and Italy with performances of Madama Butterfly and Peter Grimes at the Saito Kinen Festival and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. She received Vocal Fellowships at Tanglewood Music Center and at the Ravinia Festival. Her 2009-2010 season includes Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Princeton Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Benjamin Zander and Handel's Messiah with Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Pelletier has given solo recitals at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Goethe Institute. Her interest in Contemporary Music has led to premieres by Howard Frazin, John Goodman, James Yannatos, and Arlene Zallman with performances under the direction of Lukas Foss, Robert Spano, and John Harbison. She has performed for Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Composers in Red Sneakers, "Music in Time Series" at Spoleto Festival USA, and with Santa Fe New Music. Ms. Pelletier is recorded on Chesky Records.

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Performances

Voice of America: Florestan Recital Project presents BarberFest
Distler Performance Hall at Tufts University | September 27, 2009
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Voice of America: Florestan Recital Project presents BarberFest
Distler Performance Hall at Tufts University | September 25, 2009
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News and Press

[Concert Review] Florestan, BMOP offer sublime tribute to vocal music
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project had a good idea last weekend. They paired with the Florestan Project, a superb vocal group, to present three days of concerts named “Voice of America” at Tufts University’s Distler Performance Hall. Florestan presented the complete songs of Samuel Barber, some 75 in number. The Sunday afternoon concert I attended then featured a chamber-music-sized BMOP with concerted songs of Samuel Barber and Virgil Thomson. Florestan and BMOP together offered a sublime tribute to the voice.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer Full review
[Concert Review] The Barber songbook
Samuel Barber (near left, with his lover Gian Carlo Menotti) once described himself as “a living dead composer,” and indeed, for most his life his commitment to romantic feeling in the modern age consigned him to the dustbin of critical opinion. But history has a way of upending that dustbin, and Barber’s gift for lyrical simplicity, cemented in the popular mind by his Adagio for Strings, has enabled him to outlast his detractors.
The Hub Review Full review
[Concert Review] Florestan and BMOP join forces to celebrate American vocal repertoire
This evening’s double concert in the Distler Performance Hall of Tufts’ Granoff Music Center began a 3-day festival involving a partnership between the Florestan Recital Project and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project to highlight American vocal music. The former’s presentation was the 1st of 3 concerts which together would span the entire vocal opus of Samuel Barber, aptly titled, “BarberFest,” while the latter highlights contemporary compositions for vocalist(s) and chamber orchestra.
Classical Voice of New England Full review

 

No one can forget the last song's "ah, to be all alone."

— The Boston Musical Intelligencer Full review