Sarah Maria Sun
Sarah Maria Sun is a soprano who specializes in contemporary music. She studied singing in Cologne and Stuttgart, working with Darinka Segota and Tanja Ariane Baumgartner. From 2007 to 2014 she was the leading soprano of Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. Her repertoire includes hundreds of world premieres, and in 2017 Opernwelt nominated her singer of the year for the title role of Sciarrino's Lohengrin. She is also an illustrator and children's book author. Killer Instincts (Mode, 2020), made with The Gurks, is a concept album of songs about bad people doing bad things.
Killer Instincts
Soprano Sarah Maria Sun and The Gurks perform fifteen songs about bad people doing bad things, from Bernstein, Weill, Tom Waits and Joe Walsh to Schubert, including the first recording of Stefan Wolpe's Hitler.
Christian Gerhaher, Juliane Banse, Ivan Ludlow, Sarah Maria Sun, Annette Schönmüller, Philharmonia Zürich, Basler Madrigalisten, Heinz Holliger
LuneaHeinz Holliger's opera Lunea on the poet Nikolaus Lenau, libretto by Händl Klaus, recorded live at Opernhaus Zürich in March 2018 with Christian Gerhaher, Juliane Banse, Sarah Maria Sun, Annette Schönmüller, Ivan Ludlow, Philharmonia Zürich and Basler Madrigalisten, Holliger conducting.