Born in Berlin, Sarah van der Kemp began her musical education by studying musicology and piano. Even before her diploma, she decided on a singing career and studied singing at the Berlin HfM with Julia Varady. Working with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in his master classes had a strong influence.

The mezzo-soprano moves in a wide-ranging repertoire. Whether Judith (Duke Bluebeard's Castle), Composer (Ariadne on Naxos), Rosina (Barbiere di Siviglia), Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel), Carmen (Carmen), Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), Eboli (Don Carlo), Sieglinde (Valkyrie).

After graduating, permanent engagements brought her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Staatstheater Schwerin. Engagements have taken Sarah van der Kemp to the Shenzhen Philharmonic Orchestra in China, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Berlin State Opera, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Festival d'Avignon, the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, the Philharmonie Baden Baden, and others.

In concert, her special passion is the interpretation of orchestral songs. Her repertoire includes songs by Mahler, Wagner, Berlioz, Berg, de Falla and others.
Her own projects and conceptions broaden and deepen the singer's expressive spectrum - she has developed concert series and individual events in various dimensions and constellations, in the recent past for example a juxtaposition of Mahler's Song of the Earth with commissioned works for solo instruments by Peter Eötvös, Toshio Hosokawa and Nathan Currier.

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