Sara MacKimmie

Praised by the press for her “richness and roundness of tone" and "on-the-button intonation," Sara MacKimmie is a Washington, DC-based soprano who specializes in historical performance and ensemble singing. Recent highlights include a tour of the southern US with harpist Parker Ramsay and A Golden Wire, Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, many oratorios with the Academy of Sacred Drama in New York, Couperin’s Leçons de ténèbres with the Denver Early Music Consort, and several engagements with New York Baroque Incorporated, with whom she has sung at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and for the San Diego Early Music Society. She also performs regularly with the Bach-Abel Society, Kinnara Ensemble, The Thirteen, hexaCollective, and the Peabody Consort and sings weekly as a chorister and cantor at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. 

Sara completed masters degrees in voice and early music at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Ah Young Hong. While at Peabody, she coached with Eileen Cornett, Adam Pearl, and Richard Stone. A proud native of Michigan, Sara obtained her undergraduate degree in voice at Michigan State University.