Sarah Down

Sarah Down studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Alexander Kelly and then later with Paul Hamburger and Lilli Skauge. She worked extensively with Martin Issep and Ralf Kothoni at the Britten Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies. She was then appointed staff accompanist at the school where she was privileged to work alongside artists including Ileana Cotrubas, Janine Reiss, Jerzy Macszymiuk, Steuart Bedford and Nancy Evans.

She is a founder member of the Ellerdale Trio with whom she has performed throughout the UK and also of Musica Primavera. She is part of the Silvestre Trio with soprano Nina Bennett and violinist Susan Collier. Sarah made her Purcell Room debut as an accompanist in 1982 and her concerto debut in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1986. Since then she has been in demand as accompanist, soloist, opera repetiteur, chamber musician and teacher.

She has recorded for Radio 3 and Classic FM and an album of songs by Walter Leigh with the Soprano Elizabeth Nash. She has also recorded Cilia Petridou’s Piano Trio, Piano Quartet and Violin and Piano works.