Mezzo-Soprano Sarah Rose Taylor is in increasing demand for her versatile voice and compelling musicianship. The warmth and beauty of her voice is admired by audiences and critics alike, with The Boston Musical Intelligencer writing “sung with gorgeous shading and intensity…whose clarity and focus brought the audience to rapt attention, setting just the right mood for the transition to the drama of the final movement.” (Urlicht from Mahler’s Symphony No.2, Resurrection) Having appeared as a soloist in the United Kingdom, Austria, France, Germany, Italy and The Bahamas, Ms Taylor maintains an active schedule across the United States, including recital engagements in Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Washington DC. In 2014, she performed her Weill Carnegie Hall solo debut singing selections of Elgar’s Sea Pictures. Ms Taylor has also appeared as a finalist in competitions in the USA and Europe including the Talents Lyriques, Reims Voix Sacrées Competition (France) and most recently as a semi-finalist in the Premiere Opera Foundation Competition with NYIOP in New York. In 2015, MSR Classics released Ms. Taylor’s solo debut CD of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Elgar’s Sea Pictures and ‘The Angel’s Farewell’ from The Dream of Gerontius, which has been reviewed as “lends her rich, dark mezzo to the lush texture of the work.” Fanfare; “Sarah Rose Taylor’s voice is warm, radiant and creamy…first class…” Music & Vision, Sydney; “Ms. Taylor’s ravishing voice… filled with lyrical tenderness and power as needed. I am very impressed with her vocal artistry. It (Wagner/Elgar CD) is unforgettable and Sarah Rose Taylor is a marvel!” Gapplegate Music Review. Ms. Taylor’s wide-ranging oratorio repertoire has included solo role performances of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Handel’s Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus, Haydn’s Mass in Time of War, Debussy’s Cantata La Damoiselle Elue and Arvo Pärt’s Passio. In 2015 she sang with The Tallis Scholars for Carnegie Hall’s Spem in alium Tallis Project. In the spring of 2022 she is looking forward to performing a concert of arias by Handel and Purcell with the St Thomas Choir and New York Baroque Incorporated, conducted by Jeremy Filsell and she will also be the alto soloist in their performances of Handel’s Messiah this December. On the operatic stage, Ms. Taylor’s roles have included Marcellina and Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, La Badessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Sally in Barber’s A Hand of Bridge, and Francisco in the world premiere of Bruce Saylor’s The Image Maker. More recently she performed ‘Se Romeo’ from Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi with the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria. She has been invited to perform the role of Schwertleite, one of the Valkyries, in Wagner’s Die Walküre with the Berlin Dramatic Voices Program and she will also be performing the role of second norn in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung and Laura in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda with the New York Dramatic Voices program this summer. She joins the chorus and comprimario roster of the Boston Lyric Opera this September. Born in England, Sarah Rose Taylor grew up in a rich musical choral tradition, singing in many of England’s Cathedrals with the Royal School of Church Music’s Southern Cathedral Singers. Since moving to the USA, she has been a member of several professional choirs in New York City, Charleston, SC and Boston, MA. Ms. Taylor has a Master’s degree and an Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance from The Aaron Copland School of Music in New York City where she studied with Dr. Sherry Overholt. She has also studied with Neil Semer and Barbara Quintiliani, and currently works with Metropolitan Opera soprano, Jennifer Rowley and coaches with former Metropolitan Opera conductor, Steven Crawford. Ms. Taylor also holds degrees in French Studies from the British Institute in Paris and a Maîtrise in French Language Teaching from La Sorbonne, Paris.