Charles Branchini Award (2014)

Royal College of Music Spring Concerto Competition (2015)

Selma D. and Leon Fischbach Award (London Handel Festival Singing Competition) (2015)

Sarah Hayashi, soprano, has sung roles including Fire, Princess, and the Nightingale in Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges, Belinda in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Miss Ellen in Leo Delibes’s Lakmé, Euridice in Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, and Despina in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. Last season, she covered the role of Erste Knabe in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with the Royal College of Music International Opera School. She was also part of the eigth-strong chorus in Handel’s Giove in Argo, a collaboration with the RCMIOS and the London Handel Festival. Upcoming stage performances include Emmie in Britten's Albert Herring with the Royal College of Music's International Opera School. Her future concert performances include Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate with the Royal College of Music's String Band in the Autumn of 2015 and a lunchtime concert for the London Handel Festival in the Spring of 2016.
In 2008, Sarah won the Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts Award. She is also the recipient of the 2012 Evergreen House Foundation Scholarship. She was inducted into the Pi Kappa Lamda music honor society in 2013. She recently was a winner of the Royal College of Music’s Spring Concerto Competition and a finalist of the London Handel Festival’s Singing Competition, receiving the Selma D. and Leon Fishbach Prize.
Sarah completed her four-year studies at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore receiving both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Vocal Performance. She is currently pursuing a Master of Performance at the Royal College of Music in London with Janis Kelly and Andrew Robinson, supported by a Charles Branchini Award and the Josephine Baker Trust.

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