Sarah Jennings

Biography

Her singing career included working as principal artist at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Opera d'Orleans, Aix en Provence Opera, Opera Holland Park, English Bach Festival Opera, Northern Wagner Orchestra amongst others. She has recorded for Erato, and for the BBC and Czech TV. She gave many solo recitals and concerts in London and in Europe at venues including the South Bank Centre London, St Martin in the Fields, Fairfield Halls, the Amadeus Centre, and in Andalucia, Southern Spain. She was Founder/Director of Jigsaw Music Theatre which saw great success in productions of small scale opera and musical theatre and comedy. Shows included Tomfoolery, Perfectly Weill, Pizza with Mushrooms, The Bear, A Hand of Bridge, The Waiters Revenge, The Station (Howard Blake). She also founded Opera Jigsaw which put on community operas in a weekend, using professional singers and an amateur chorus. As a freelance director Sarah worked for Mid Wales Opera, NYMT, Pimlico Opera, Opera Integra, Birmingham Conservatoire, and Self Made Music Theatre. As an actor she has appeared in TV film and dramas, and in cabaret. Sarah has worked as singing tutor for nine years at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, previously for Guildford School of Acting, and joined the staff of Chichester University in 2013.

Research Interest

Music