Soprano Sarah Ashcroft VandenBrink is a performer, educator, researcher, and music director. As a native of Holland, Michigan she has recently returned to West Michigan after completing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and Literature and a minor in Vocal Pedagogy from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where she also received her Master’s of Music.
As an avid performer, Sarah has made a home on the stage. Her opera theatre credits include Anna Maurrant in "Street Scene" (Weill), Madame Lidoine in "Dialogues of the Carmelites" (Poulenc), Lady Billows in "Albert Herring" (Britten), Mrs. Grose in Turn of the Screw (Britten), High Priestess in "Aïda" (Verdi), Gerhilde in "Die Walküre" (Wagner) and Fourth Maid in "Elektra" (Strauss). She is an active recitalist and recently gave a lecture-recital at the 2026 59th Annual national conference hosted by the National Association of Teachers of Singing on forgotten women in the November 1918 edition of The Etude.
Her research is dedicated to underrepresented women composers, and she has focused her energies on reviving the vocal works of 19th century German composers Emilie Mayer. An anthology of Mayer’s Lieder, which included newly engraved copies of 12 of her songs in tandem with word-for-word translations, poetic translations and IPA transcriptions, is under contract and will be published with the Hildegard Publishing Company. Release date coming soon.
Learn more about Sarah on her website: sarahvandenbrink.com.
