Guest Artists

Sara Macliver

Soprano

Sara Macliver is one of Australia’s most popular and versatile artists, and is regarded as one of the leading exponents of Baroque repertoire in Australia.

Sara is a regular performer with all the Australian symphony orchestras as well as the Perth, Melbourne and Sydney Festivals, Musica Viva, Melbourne Chorale, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra among others.

Sara records for ABC Classics with more than 30 CDs including Fauré’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Haydn arias with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and two duet albums with mezzo soprano Sally-Anne Russell. She has recorded Handel’s Messiah for CD and DVD and this has been screened several times on national television. Recent releases include the award winning Mozart Arias with the TSO and Songs of the Auvergne.

In 2008 engagements included concerts with the Melbourne, Adelaide, West Australian and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, the New Zealand and Musica Viva Festivals, and as Jonathan in Pinchgut Opera’s performances of Charpentier’s David and Jonathan.

In 2009 Sara sang Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro with West Australian Opera, in Elijah with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Creation in New Zealand, Christmas concerts in Hong Kong and in an all-Mozart program with the Sydney Symphony amongst many other engagements.

Sara has recently been award an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Australia in recognition of her services to singing.