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Sarah Price, soprano

Sarah Price, soprano, is a rising classical performer in the Central Savannah River Area. As a senior voice performance major at Augusta State University, she has been featured as a soloist with a number of musical ensembles on campus, including the University Singers, Chamber Singers, Women’s Ensemble, Opera Ensemble, the Combined Choirs, and the ASU Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. Off campus, she has been heard in concert with such performing groups as the Columbia County Civic Orchestra, the Cecilia Ensemble, and the Church of the Good Shepherd Choir. She was the 2012 recipient of the Lucy C. Ruzicka Memorial Award for Musical Theater, a winner of the Augusta State University Concerto Competition in April of 2011, and was awarded First Place (Third Year Women) at the Southeastern Regional NATS Student Audition Competition in March of 2011.

Recent notable stage performances include the roles of the Fairy Godmother in Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, La Badessa in Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Laetitia in Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief, Trio Girl in Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Juno in Jacques Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers, and scenes from such operas as The Magic Flute (Königin), Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde), Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi), Carmen (Frasquita), Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira), The Medium (Monica), and The Abduction from the Seraglio (Konstanze). Recent oratorio performances include soprano arias from Handel’s Messiah with the Columbia County Civic Orchestra, the soprano solo in Vivaldi’s Gloria (performed separately with the ASU Combined Choirs, the Augusta Chorale, and the Christ Church Presbyterian Choir), and the soprano solo in Poulenc’s Gloria as part of the John Schaeffer Memorial Concert on November 4^th, 2011, which was given with the combined efforts of the Reid Memorial Presbyterian Choir, Good Shepherd Choir, and members of the Symphony Orchestra of Augusta, and the part of Gabriel in Haydn’s Creation, in collaboration with the Aiken Choral Society, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Choirs, and members of Lyra Vivace.

Upcoming engagements include the role of Pallade in L’incoronazione di Poppea as part of the La Musica Lirica Festival in Novafeltria, Italy, which will be held from June 17^th to July 21^st, and the role of Amahl’s Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, a combined effort with the ASU Opera Ensemble and Woodlawn United Methodist Church.

A four-time Dean’s List student, Sarah is a current member of Phi-Kappa Phi and has been featured as a member of the 2011 National Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. She has studied with Patti Abasolo Myers, Dr. John Ramsaur, and Fran Nabholz.