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, originally as a recording orchestra for the growing home audio market. We have worked with a who’s who of 20th- and 21st-century music. Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini and Riccardo Muti are just a few of the great artists to be associated with the Orchestra, and we have premiered works by Richard Strauss, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Errollyn Wallen, Kaija Saariaho and many others. We have always pioneered the use of technology to reach broader audiences for orchestral music. During the Coronavirus pandemic, we continued to create outstanding performances designed to experience online. We played for lifelong fans and first-time listeners in Brazil, Sudan, Indonesia, India, and high above the Arctic Circle in Norway.

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, in the heart of London, has been our home since 1995. We also have residencies at venues and festivals across England: Bedford Corn Exchange, De Montfort Hall in Leicester, The Marlowe in Canterbury, Anvil Arts in Basingstoke, the Three Choirs Festival in the West of England, and Garsington Opera. Central to all our residencies is a Learning & Engagement programme that empowers people to engage with, and participate in, orchestral music.

The Philharmonia is a registered charity. We rely on income from a wide range of sources to deliver our programme. We are proud to be supported by Arts Council England, and grateful for the generosity of the many individuals who make up our supporter family, as well as the Trusts and Foundations who underpin our work. In the US, the Orchestra’s American Patrons generously support the Philharmonia Foundation, a US-registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation.