Innately comical soprano Sarah Baumgarten has no trouble showcasing her personality through the repertoire she performs. Whether singing Mozart, Puccini, or Gershwin, she embraces the essence of each musical style. She brings her sunny demeanor to her collaborations with composers and other performers. Sarah has performed at venues such as Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center, Dixon Place, the Library of Congress, The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Andrea Clearfield’s Salon in Philadelphia, The West End Lounge and World Café Live. She sings with the Philadelphia Orchestra Symphonic Choir, Chizuk Amuno Congregation, Concert Artists of Baltimore, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Chorale, The Ritz Theatre, The Broadway Theatre of Pitman, and is currently the Soprano Choral Scholar at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Highlights from last season include Monica in The Medium; Annunziata in the new musical, La Giara at World Café Live with Minas; Rebecca Kaplan in the new opera, The Yellow Star with Garden State Opera; the roles of Lucy (The Telephone) and Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica) with the Delaware Valley Opera Company; Soprano Soloist for the 2nd annual Sing Hallelujah! concert at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall under the baton of Cantor David F. Tilman; debuting her solo concert, Jews to my Ears, a concert of Jewish songs, and songs by Jewish composers; and reprising her solo concert, No One is Alone: The Jewish Tradition on Broadway, a lecture recital detailing the influence of Jewish songwriters on American Musical Theatre.

Favorite roles include Monica (The Medium); Lucy (The Telephone); Musetta (La Bohème); Cinderella (A Tale of Cinderella); Noémie (Cendrillon); and Papagena (Die Zauberflӧte). Sarah has been featured with Annapolis Opera, Delaware Valley Opera Company, Garden State Opera, Minas, New York Lyric Opera Theatre, OperaWorks, Larry McKenna’s New Voices Cabaret, TableTop Broadway, Asheville Lyric Opera, the International Vocal Arts Institute (Tel Aviv), and Vancouver Summer Opera Workshop in addition to Peabody Opera, and Penn State Opera Theatre.

Upcoming engagements include the role of Baby Mouse in On Site Opera’s production of Shostakovich’s The Silly Little Baby Mouse, the Semi-Finals of the Orpheus National Music Competition; Sing Hallelujah! at the Kimmel Center this March under the baton of Cantor David Tilman; No One is Alone: The Jewish Tradition on Broadway at the Cherry Hill Public Library.

Ms. Baumgarten earned her Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in May 2015, studying under Soprano Ah Young Hong. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance, with a minor in Italian from the Pennsylvania State University, studying under Norman Spivey. She currently maintains a private voice and piano studio in South Jersey, and studies with both Peggy Baroody and Robert Edwin.