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Sarah Z Wang trained in classical dance and piano before her passion for classical singing led her to a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and a Master’s Degree in Vocal Arts & Opera from the University of Southern California, where she was a scholarship recipient in the Graduate Certificate program under the direction of Elizabeth Hynes. As the recipient of the ESTIVO full scholarship to the Conservatorium in 2015, she was also awarded the AOAC E Chang and K & E Ong Opera Scholarship, the Demant Dreikurs Scholarship and the Sydney Eisteddfod’s Joan Sutherland Memorial Vocal Scholarship in 2013 and 2014. As a finalist in the 2016 Australian Singing Competition, she was awarded a total of eight prizes including Audience Favorite.

Equally at home performing Broadway Classics, Sarah has recently performed with Nancy’s Cabaret at Huntington Beach.  Her operatic roles include Barbarina and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Alma March in Little Women, the Vixen in The Cunning Little Vixen, Violetta in La Traviata, L'Enfant in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Tisbe in La Cenerentola and La Natura and Endimione in La Calisto. Sarah was scheduled to sing Jenny Reefer in The Mother of Us All at the Aspen Music Festival, but the production was postponed due to COVID-19.

In 2020 and 2021 Sarah performed with a mask for Best Singing Telegram which brought a live musical healing experience to those quarantined during the pandemic. As an avid supporter of charities, she has participated in concerts for Can Revive, the Sydney Cancer Council and the Children with Disabilities Association. In 2023, She is now singing with Verdi Chorus as an apprentice artist.