Educated at Giggleswick School, the University of London, and Royal College of Music, soprano Sarah Fox is a winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and the John Christie Award, and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway College, the University of London. She has sung major roles including at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Salzburg Festival, Gran Teatro del Liceu, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Danish Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Welsh National Opera and Opera North. Roles have included Micaëla (Carmen), Asteria (Tamerlano), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Ilia (Idomeneo), Woglinde (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Mimì (La bohème) and Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes).

Sarah has appeared in concert with many leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Vienna Tonkunstler, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Basque National Orchestra, Concerto Koln, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Camerata Salzburg. She has performed many times at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, and Three Choirs Festival, and is a regular guest at London’s Wigmore Hall. She has collaborated with many leading conductors, including Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Mark Elder, Andrew Litton, Vasily Petrenko, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Charles Mackerras, Andrew Manze, John Wilson, Joana Carneiro, Robert Treviño, Ivor Bolton and Richard Hickox. She is a regular soloist on “Friday Night Is Music Night” on BBC Radio 2, was a judge on BBC 2 Television's The Choir, and has performed with Rufus Wainwright in Europe and Hong Kong.

Her substantial discography includes many Gramophone Award nominations and "Editor's Choice" and BBC Music Magazine "Choice" accolades. Recordings include Mozart’s Il Re Pastore (Aminta), two editions of songs by Poulenc (Hyperion and Signum), "The Cole Porter Songbook", Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 under Charles Mackerras and Lorin Maazel (both with the Philharmonia Orchestra), "That’s Entertainment" with the John Wilson Orchestra under John Wilson, English Lyrics by Parry, Mozart’s Requiem with the London Mozart Players, Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem with the Colorado Symphony and Chorus under Andrew Litton, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Andrew Manze, Parry's oratorios Prometheus Unbound and the world premiere recording of Judith (title-role) with the London Mozart Players and Crouch End Festival Chorus under William Vann, and the world premiere recording of Nimrod Borenstein’s Shakespeare Songs (English Chamber Orchestra).

The Philharmonia was founded in 1945 by EMI producer Walter Legge, and has worked with a who’s who of 20th- and 21st-century musicians. Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali took up the baton as Principal Conductor in September 2021. The sixth person to hold the title, he is known for his expressive, balletic conducting style and irrepressible energy.
Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini, Riccardo Muti and Esa-Pekka Salonen are just a few of the great artists to be associated with the Philharmonia, and the Orchestra has premiered works by Richard Strauss, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Errollyn Wallen, Kaija Saariaho and many others.
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, in the heart of London, has been the Philharmonia’s home since 1995.
The Orchestra also has residencies at venues and festivals across England, each embracing a Learning & Engagement programme that empowers people to engage with, and participate in, orchestral music.
The Philharmonia’s international reputation is built in part on its extraordinary 79-year recording legacy, which in the last ten years has been built on by pioneering work with digital technology. The Orchestra’s installations and VR experiences have introduced hundreds of thousands of people to the symphony orchestra. The Philharmonia has won four Royal Philharmonic Society awards for its digital projects and audience engagement work. The Philharmonia is the go-to orchestra for many film and videogame composers in the UK and Hollywood, and its music-making has been experienced by millions of cinema- goers and gamers. It has recorded over 150 soundtracks, with film credits stretching back to 1947. Since 2023, the Orchestra has released live recordings on its own label, Philharmonia Records, in collaboration with Signum Records.
The Philharmonia has over 2m listeners each month on Spotify, and a vibrant YouTube channel with over 140,000 subscribers. The channel features free performances; instrument guides; interviews with artists; and in-depth documentaries.
The Philharmonia is an official partner of Classic FM and broadcasts extensively on BBC Radio 3.
The Philharmonia is a registered charity, proud to be supported by Arts Council England, many generous individuals, corporate supporters and Trusts and Foundations.
A team of 80 outstanding musicians from 16 countries, the Philharmonia looks forward to bringing music into your life, through great concerts, recordings and ground-breaking projects, for many years to come.