Dr. Sarah Griffiths

Sarah Abigail Griffiths, soprano

Hailed by the Dallas Morning News for her “glowing tone, effortless facility and vivid expressivity,” Sarah Abigail Griffiths appears regularly as soloist and chorister with many Dallas ensembles, including Orpheus Chamber Singers, Dallas Bach Society, and Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church.  Before moving to Texas, she performed with several notable ensembles in the New York area, including Fuma Sacra, Early Music New York, and Princeton Singers.  In 2008 Ms. Griffiths made her Carnegie Weill Hall debut, performing as both soloist and chorister as a young artist in the Weill Music Institutes Handel workshop directed by Ton Koopman.  On the opera stage she has performed the roles of First Lady in Magic Flute and Semele in L’Egisto with UNT Opera, and previously sang the roles of Naiade in Ariadne auf Naxos with Spoleto Festival U.S.A., First Witch in Dido and Aeneas with Brandywine Baroque, and Belona in La purpura de la Rosa with Amherst Early Music Festival.

Ms. Griffiths is a founding member of the early music ensemble Armonia Celeste, one of the finalists in the 2011 Naxos/Early Music America recording competition.  She is equally versatile as an oratorio soloist, and has recently performed works by Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Respighi, Rossini, Vaughan Williams and Vivaldi. With UNTs Collegium Singers, she sang two Handel roles, Philistine Woman in Samson and Merab in Saul, in productions conducted by Dallas Opera Music Director Graeme Jenkins.  In the spring of 2010 she appeared as the soprano soloist in the U.S. Premiere of Bob Chilcott’s Requiem with Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church.  Ms. Griffiths holds degrees from Earlham College, Westminster Choir College, and the University of North Texas.