Sarah Brauer

Sarah Brauer 

(she/her) 

Sarah Brauer, mezzo-soprano, enjoys a varied career of concert, opera, and choral performance. 

Sarah earned her music degrees from Rice University and the University of Southern California, and is currently pursuing her Doctor of Music degree at the University of Oregon. 

Sarah has appeared as a soloist with the Oregon Bach Festival, Santa Fe Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Cascadia Chamber Opera, Houston Bach Society, Aspen Music Festival, Salem Chamber Orchestra, and Jefferson Baroque Orchestra, among others. 

Highlights include the mezzo-soprano role in the concert-drama Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, created and conducted by Murry Sidlin, Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the Santa Fe Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem with the Charlotte Master Chorale at Carnegie Hall, and the role of Judy in the national touring production of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard. 

Sarah has recorded nine discs with Austin-based professional choir, Conspirare, including the Grammy-winning Sacred Spirit of Russia.