Sarah Robinson Soprano

An engineer by day, Sarah Robinson has always had a passion for music and theater. She recently returned to Maryland after a decade away, earning a B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Inspired by her love of music, she specialized in acoustics and hearing, studying sound transmission in the ear canal and middle ear.

Sarah's most recent roles fall outside of the opera realm. She "rocked the role of the crackpot medium" Madame Arcati in the play Blithe Spirit, and performed a rather operatic rendition of Miss Andrew in the musical Mary Poppins. While living in Illinois, Sarah sang regularly with the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana, appearing as the Second Woman and Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas, and as a soloist in concert. She was also a member and soloist of Capella Orpheus, a chamber choir specializing in unusual and challenging music. In community theater, she leant her vocal abilities to the obnoxious laugh of Gertie in Oklahoma, and performed many Shakespearian roles, including Gertrude in Hamlet, Olivia in Twelfth Night, and the Earl of Kent in King Lear. As a student at Cornell, Sarah sang in numerous recitals, appeared as a street chorister in Bernstein's Mass, and performed as an operatic Tooth Fairy in the poignant contemporary play God's Ear.

Sarah holds a minor in music from Cornell University, and has studied privately with Ruth Drucker (Baltimore, MD), the late Judith Kellock (Cornell University) and Dr. Ollie Watts Davis (University of Illinois).