Sara Stowe
soprano
Sara Stowe is one of Britain’s most versatile and inventive performers with a repertoire ranging from medieval song to the present day. She began studying as a prize-winning harpsichordist and piano scholar at the Royal College of Music. On leaving she decided to pursue singing and with the aid of a British Council Bursary, studied in Italy where she sang for Luciano Berio and studied Scelsi’s vocal music with Michiko Hirayama.
Sara has sung at many festivals throughout Europe, Scandinavia, the Far East, North Africa and South America. In Germany, at the Darmstadt Festival of New Music, she met and worked with Mauricio Kagel on Recitativarie. She has sung on many classical European radio networks and made recordings for Chandos, Decca, Continuum, Hyperion and Merck.
In Britain Sara’s performances include work with The Academy of Ancient Music, New London Consort, Sirinu, James Wood and the Taverner Consort, at such venues as the South Bank Centre, Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre. Sara has recently toured on an R.V.W. Trust funded concert series and studied Korean vocal styles on a Korean Government scholarship. She features on Métier’s forthcoming CD of Howard Skempton’s works The man hurdy-gurdy and me.
www.sarastowe.com
“In this concert Sara Stowe’s performance of Kagel’s `Recitativarie’ provides the moment of enlightenment because hers is a splendidly committed representation of the work’s blasphemous protagonist.” – Christopher Fox (Contact Magazine Darmstadt)
“Sara Stowe – was on top form throughout, in these, as well as coping with the astounding vocal difficulties of two of Scelsi’s extraordinary Canti del Capricorno”. – Musical Times
(review of Meltdown Festival, South Bank Centre)
