Beijing, China
Sarah Schroeder
Voice
Senior Teaching Artist
In Person and Online
Sarah Schroeder brings over two decades of experience in voice pedagogy, providing personalized training and prepares students for high-level performance.
Founder of Fine Arts Voice, Sarah has been teaching for 23 years. Sarah teaches both online and in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Prior to this she taught privately at Chicago's historic Fine Arts Building for twelve years. Sarah taught undergraduate voice at Belmont University working with CCM (contemporary commercial musicians), Bluegrass and Country singers, and was the head of the voice department at the Metropolis Performing Arts School in Arlington Heights. Sarah currently serves as support staff for the Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House. She is also a member of The Royal Conservatory's College of Examiners and examines singers throughout the United States and Canada.
Sarah’s students include singers of all ages and levels from beginners to touring members of Broadway In Chicago musicals, as well as commercial and recording artist. Her students have performed at theaters in Chicago such as The Goodman Theater, Second City, Mariott Theatre, Metropolis Theater and in NYC at Carnegie Hall. Sarah has prepared high school students who have auditioned for and been accepted to nationally recognized performing arts schools and conservatories for both classical voice and musical theater.
For eight years, Sarah was a teaching artist with The Lyric Opera of Chicago's OperaKids! program. This year long residency in Chicago public schools focuses on integrating opera into age appropriate curriculum. During this program, Sarah produced and directed an opera written by the students during this residency, as well as Stone Soup, an opera commissioned by the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
As an instructor of musical theater, Sarah co-founded two training programs: The Chicago Broadway Studio, an avenue for training young singing actors, and The Broadway Vocal Arts Summer Intensive Program for college students.
A member of the National Association for Teachers of Singing, Sarah served on the board for six years as co-chair for the Musical Theater competition and as an adjudicator for both musical theater and classical competitions. She was awarded a National Association for Teachers of Singing Independent Teacher Fellowship in 2011.
Sarah holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Pedagogy & Performance from Belmont University and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Samford University with continued studies in vocal pedagogy with Richard Miller and David Jones.
Sarah has also been trained as a Level II Singing Voice Specialist (SVS). As a SVS, she is skilled in singing voice therapy principles and planning, techniques for singing behavior change, and principles in therapeutic songs, and holistic methods for preventing vocal re-injury. In addition to singing training, Sarah has also studied human anatomy and physiology to fully understand how our muscles function and the breathing process during the singing.
Sarah lives in Highland Park, IL with her husband, Tim, a master luthier at Schroeder Amplification, Inc. and son.
Sarah Schroeder, Soprano
Rep: Dream Team Talent, Chicago, Illinois
AS A PERFORMER
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Sarah Schroeder has been awarded prizes in The Barry Alexander International Voice Competition as well as The Long Leaf National Voice Competition. In 2012 and 2013, she was the recipient of awards from The American Prize National Competition in three categories; Opera, Art Song, and Oratorio.
In 2013/14, Sarah toured China with the South Shore Orchestra as the guest soprano soloist singing operatic favorites from Verdi's La Traviata and one of the most famous waltz's in the classical repertoire; Johann Strauss's “Frühlingsstimmen.”
On stage, she has toured England with Chamber Opera of Chicago, portraying Mrs. Clay in a musical adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. She joined the company in the Chicago and New York productions as Mrs. Harville in the 2012/2013 productions.
Other music theater roles include Sister Agatha/ Maria U/S. for Chamber Opera Chicago's production of Rodger's & Hammerstein's: The Sound of Music, Magnolia in a concert performance of the music of Jerome Kern’s Show Boat, and as Jane Bennett in the Chicago Premiere of Jacob and Baker’s Pride & Prejudice.
Most recent operatic roles performed roles include: Violeletta in La Traviata and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with Verismo Opera Theater; Zaide with the Amadeus Opern Ensemble in Salzburg, Austria; Frasquita in Carmen with both Lexington Opera and Chamber Opera Chicago; Dew Fairy in Hansel & Gretel; Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Sugar Creek Symphony; Adele in Die Fledermaus with Belmont Opera theater; Jou Jou in Mitislav the Modern with Chicago Folks Operetta; Sister Catherine in Dialogues of the Carmelites with Converse Opera Theater; Miss Pinkerton in Old Maid & the Thief; and Felice in Test Tube, at which time, she was the first to sing the fully staged role of Milton Granger's opera.
In concert, Sarah has been heard at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s annual fundraiser honoring Riccardo Muti in An Evening of Italian Opera, and as the guest soloist at Orchestra Hall for the annual Rush Medical Center Fundraiser. She has appeared as a soloist on the Chicago Lyric Opera Guild Concert Series, Northbrook Parisian Salon Series, Omnitones Chamber Ensemble, Chicago Chamber Ensemble, the Lira Ensemble, and in Chamber Opera Chicago's Te Amo: An evening of Spanish Music and Dance.
In spring, 2024, Sarah was the soprano soloist for the award-winning Requiem for My Friend from acclaimed Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner. Preisner is Poland’s leading film music composer, having received numerous international film awards, and is considered to be one of the most outstanding film composers of his generation. The piece was Preisner’s first large-scale work specially written for live performance and was dedicated to the memory of lauded film director Krzysztof Kieslowski, Preisner’s long-time collaborator.
Other recent works include Mozart’s Vespers (Vespare Solennes de Confessore) in March, 2024 with the Tower Chorale and as a soloist / section leader for a choral residency at the Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, England.
On screen, Sarah appeared as a singer in a T-Mobile national television commercial under the direction of Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Glee) and Musical Director Paul Mirkovich. Other credits include Logitech, A&E’s The Beast and Michael Mann’s Public Enemies.
Sarah holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Pedagogy & Performance from Belmont University and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Samford University with continued studies in vocal pedagogy with Richard Miller and David Jones. She is also trained as a Level II Singing Voice Specialist.
