Sarah Gartshore has had an outstanding career in Chicago and relocated to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in 2014 where she teaches at the Algoma Conservatory and Algoma University. The Chicago Tribune describes her voice as “particularly impressive and possessing a rich, shining soprano”. Performances have included the Ravina Festival, Santa Fe Opera, American Opera Group, and Chamber Opera Chicago to name a few. Her portrayal of the desperate Magda, described by Opera Canada as “startlingly dramatic, was a highlight of Chamber Opera Chicago’s production of Menotti’s The Consul”.
In addition she is in demand on the concert stage with an expansive repertoire including performances of Dvorak’s “Mass” with the International Choral Arts Festival of Jihlava in the Czech Republic, “Messiah” with the Richmond and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras as well as Chicago’s Apollo Chorus, Haydn’s “Heiligmesse,” Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” and the “Te Deum’s” of Delalande and Charpentier with Music of the Baroque, Brahms’ “Requiem” and Mahler’s “Fourth Symphony” with the Richmond Symphony, and Mahler’s “Second Symphony” and Verdi’s “Requiem” with the Muncie Symphony (IN). As a nine year veteran of The Handel Week Festival of Oak Park (IL) she has performed several solo cantatas, Judas Maccabaeus, Esther, Fulvia in Ezio, and Galatea in Acis and Galatea.
On our side of the river, Gartshore was seen as Donna Elvira in Soo Opera’s 2015 production of “Don Giovanni” and has adjudicated the Eastern Upper Peninsula Festival of Voice.
