Sarah Walker began her musical life as a violinist at the Royal College of Music in London and subsequently studied singing with Vera Rozsa, with whom she has built up a wide repertoire ranging from Bach to twentieth-century works by composers such as Berio, Boulez, Cage, Henze, Ligeti, Copeland and Ives.

Miss Walker is much in demand on the concert platform worldwide and has worked with Ozawa, Davis, Mackerras, Solti, Norrington, Boulez, Rozhdestvensky, Masur, Harnoncourt and Rattle. She appears regularly with the major British orchestras and at the major British and European festivals. She was a memorable soloist at the Last Night of the Proms and sang under the late Leonard Bernstein in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Berlin to celebrate the ope...