Biography
Sarah Pagin began her musical education at the age of seven with the violin, but quickly realized that singing was her vocation. She started voice studies at the Geneva Conservatory of Music in Maria Diaconu’s class, and continued her singing training in Verona (Italy) with Alida Ferrarrini and in Strasbourg (France) with Magdalena Cononovici. At present she is studying with Magali Schwartz in Geneva.
She has also benefitted by the advice of many emblematic figures of the opera world such as Ileana Cotrubas, Angela Gheorghiu, Katia Riciarelli and many others.
Sarah made her debut in 1999 in the role of Maria from Bernstein’s "West Side Story" at the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès (Strasbourg, France). A series of recitals followed, notably in Edouard Grieg’s house in Troldhaugen (Norway, 2006), in Vienna for the entrance of Roumania in the U.N., in Billier’s Festival “Les Harmonies” (France, 2008), and for the closing concert of the Festival of St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (France, 2007).
She took part in Nino Rota’s opera “Le chapeau de paille d’Italie” playing the Modiste in Geneva in 2005 and performed Barbarina in “Le Nozze Di Figaro” at the Timisoara Opera House in Roumania (2007).Last season Sarah Pagin was invited in Montpellier to sing the Grande Sacerdotessa in Verdi's "Aida" Frank Martin's "Maria Tryptichon", and the "Carmina Burana" for the Radio France festival. This automn she performed in Florence Mozart concert arias with the Orchestra della Toscana,conducted by Eliahou Inbal, and the role of Mary in "La Cantatrice Chauve" from Gérard Calvi, a world Première. The year to come she will be singing Grieg's "Peer Gynt" in Pleyel Hall, Gontran in "L'éducation manquée" and Mendelssohn's"Lobgesang" symphony in Geneva.
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