Sarah Walker
Born: 11th March 1943, Cheltenham, England
Nationality: English
Sarah Walker began her musical life as a violinist at the Royal College of Music and subsequently studied singing with Vera Rozsa with whom she has a built up an extraordinarily wide repertoire ranging from Bach and the Baroque to twentieth century composers such as Berio, Boulez and Birtwistle.
On the concert platform she has worked with conductors such as Solti, Kleiber, Norrington, Masur, Rattle, Gardiner, Muti, and Haitink. She was a memorable Britannia at the Last Night of the Proms and took part in the performance of Beethoven's 9th, conducted by the late Leonard Bernstein in Berlin, given to celebrate the opening of the Berlin Wall at Christmas in 1989.