David Sabee (conductor)
David Sabee is the Grammy award-winning music director and principal conductor of the Northwest Sinfonia. Following his early musical education as a pianist, Sabee began cello studies at age 17 with Johan Lingeman, former solo cellist of the Concertogebouw, and continued with Paul Olefsky and Harvey Shapiro. His primary conducting …
Sara Sant’Ambrogio (cello)
Grammy-Award winning American cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio has performed all over the world, with everyone from Sting to Rudolf Serkin and in every imaginable venue from the Hollywood Bowl to Carnegie Hall. Her passionate playing has thrilled and intrigued audiences from Austin to Amsterdam and from Beijing to Boston, and she …
Gidon Saks (bass)
Praised for his “fierce, emotionally ripe performances” (Financial Times), which offer a “wealth of nuance” (Opera), Gidon Saks is renowned for his interpretations of the dramatic bass-baritone repertoire. His signature roles include Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle), Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress), Claggart (Billy Budd), Kaspar (Der Freischütz), Don Pizarro (Fidelio) and …
Stephen Salters (baritone)
Baritone Stephen Salters, a newly-minted tenure-track Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Tennessee, has performed extensively throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the UK and the USA. He created the title role in Elena Ruehr’s tour de force dance opera Toussaint Before the Spirits for Opera Boston and premiered Ruehr’s …
Carolyn Sampson
Carolyn Sampson comes from Bedford, England and read music at the University of Birmingham. A stylish interpreter of the baroque and classical masters, she regularly appears with many of the most respected period instrument groups and conductors: The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The King’s Consort, The Freiburg Baroque …
