Sarah Hayashi
The award-winning French-Japanese-American soprano Sarah Hayashi has been in high demand as an opera and concert singer with a special focus on early music. She received critical acclaim and rave reviews for her portrayal of the virtuosic role of Meleagro in Handel’s "Atalanta" at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. Based in Germany, she has appeared as a guest artist in venues such as the International Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage, Frauenkirche Dresden, Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Theater an der Wien, and International Händel Festspiele Halle, and with ensembles such as La Lira di Orfeo, Barockwerk Hamburg, Ensemble 1700, Boston Early Music Festival, Les Arts Florissants, and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. A graduate of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and the Royal College of Music in London, she is also a founding member of the Chaconne Ensemble, a baroque chamber group specialized in solo voice and basso continuo cantatas of the 16th and 17th centuries.