Described by critics as ‘extraordinary’ with ‘flawless technique’, French-Cypriot soprano Sarah Aristidou is considered a rising star and has already worked with several major conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle and François-Xavier Roth. An award-winning interpreter of the evolving contemporary repertoire, she is the first ever singer to win the 2022 Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music and was also awarded the Luitpold Prize for outstanding performance by a newcomer at the 2021 Kissinger Sommer Festival. She has twice been nominated for Opernwelt’s “Best Newcomer” award, for her performances of Christian Jost’s Die arabische Nacht (2016) and Claude Vivier’s Kopernikus (2019).

Aristidou’s 2023/24 season is highlighted by the Ligeti centenary with several appearances in Le Grande Macabre, including at the George Enescu with Arnaud Arbet, for Wiener Staatsoper with Pablo Heras-Casado, at Radio France with François Xavier Roth and in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s new production at the Bayerische Staatsoper under Kent Nagano. Her season also includes a world premiere by Brett Dean with the Scharoun Ensemble, a programme entitled ‘Transfiguré – 12 vies de Schönberg’ with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Ariane Matiakh and directed by Bertrand Bonello, Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill with Staatskapelle Berlin under Finnegan Downie Dear, a late night concert with Jörg Widmann at Philharmonie Berlin, and Bach’s St John Passion with RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik conducted by Justin Doyle.

In 2021 Aristidou released her debut album, AETHER, on Alpha Classics, featuring a collaboration with Thomas Guggeis and the Orchester des Wandels. The album was nominated for a BBC Music Magazine Award and includes collaborations with Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud and Christian Rivet in a programme which ranges from Handel to Varèse to the premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Labyrinth V.  Her second album, Enigma is set for release in November 2023.