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Sarah van der Kemp © Claus Willemer
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Sarah van der Kemp (b. in Berlin) received her musical training initially in the study programmes musicology and piano. Before taking her diploma, however, she decided on a career as a singer and studied singing at the Berlin Academy of Music with Julia Varady and in master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
She developed a wide-ranging repertoire while an ensemble member at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (2005–07) and the Staatstheater Schwerin (2007–2010).
Sarah van der Kemp made her concert debut as Sieglinde (Walküre) and Venus (Tannhäuser) with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra in Hong Kong. In the Cathédrale des Invalides in Paris she sang the alto part in Verdi’s Requiem.
Engagement have taken Sarah van der Kemp to the Dresden Philharmonie, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Festival Avignon and the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara (Impromptu by Sasha Walz), the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, and many more.
In the concert area her special passion is for the orchestral Lied. Her repertoire includes not only Mahler, Wagner, Berlioz and de Falla, but also more unusual pieces by Duparc and Alban Berg or the première of the Love-Song by Panufnik (Konzerthausorchester Berlin). Together with the conductor Aurélien Bello the singer has developed Lieder programmes for orchestra and mezzo-soprano with pieces by Liszt and Wagner, etc.