Artists biographies
Sarah-Jane Brandon

Winner of the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier Competition, soprano Sarah-Jane Brandon studied at the Royal College of Music.

Her operatic appearances have included Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Sandrina (La finta giardiniera), and Mařenka (The Bartered Bride) at the Royal College of Music, and Lisaura (Alessandro) at the London Handel Festival. She will make her professional debut in the 2010/11 season at the English National Opera.

Recent concert engagements have included “Elijah”  with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Kurt Masur; “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato”  with the Mark Morris Dance Group and Jane Glover at the London Coliseum; Vivaldi's “Gloria”  at the Bridgewater Hall with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge and Stephen Cleobury; Mozart's “Requiem”  with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons and Mahler’s Symphony no. 4 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko.  

Her future engagements include her debut at the Edinburgh Festival with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis; Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”  with the LSO and Bernard Haitink; Aminta (Il re pastore) with the Classical Opera Company and Ian Page; Haydn’s “Nelson Mass” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguinand Mahler’s Symphony no. 4 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sylvain Cambreling.

In recital her appearances include the Wigmore Hall, the Crush Bar of the Royal Opera House, the Chester and Buxton Festivals and the Oxford and Leeds Lieder Festivals.

She is an Associate Artist of the Classical Opera Company.  Her many awards include the Maggie Teyte Prize and Miriam Licette Scholarship administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund; the Overseas Trophy and the Lorna Viol and Audrey Strange Prizes in the 2008 Royal Over-Seas League Competition and the Cuthbert Smith Prize in the RCM’s Lies Askonas Competition.  

She studies with Janis Kelly.