Sara Stowe studied with Virginia Black in Harlow. She won a harpsichord and piano scholarship to the Royal College of Music, the Continuo and Inter-Collegiate Raymond Russell harpsichord prizes. After leaving the RCM she was awarded a British Council Bursary to study singing in Italy and now follows a career as both singer and keyboard player.
Her broad musical interests extend from contemporary to early music which she has performed at Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and the Barbican Centre. Artists she has worked with include composer Luciano Berio, The Academy of Ancient Music, Emma Kirkby, Sirinu and Galliarda. She was a recipient of Diane Ambache Funding to perform music by female Baroque composers (BBC Radio 3 Intune), and RVWF funding to record new pieces for early instruments.
Her most recent musical work includes a Continuo Foundation tour of South American and Spanish music with Galliarda, two CDs of early and new music for harpsichord, ‘The Frozen Jewel of Potosi’ (Andean music and music from sixteenth-century Spain) with ensemble Sirinu, and a Continuo Foundation tour and recording of composer John Wilson’s seventeenth-century settings of Shakespeare’s texts. 2025 performances include Spanish 16th century music in Oxford Early Music Series with Matthew Spring, The Creation and Mozart Piano concert n.23. In 2026 Sara will sing Monteverdi Vespers in Wells and play Peter Thorne’s harpsichord Concertino in Essex.
