Sarah Class

"Isle of Wight-born Sarah’s first foray into the world of popular music is the latest chapter in her career when she was asked to compose the score for an independent feature film titled ‘The Weekend’. This brought Sarah to the attention of legendary producer Sir George Martin, who took her under the wing of George Martin Music to guide her career. In 2001 Sarah composed and produced the highly acclaimed album ‘Aurora’ with the award-winning all-girls choir Cantamus, which spent several months in the UK Classical Chart and saw Sarah nominated for a Classical Brit Award. Sarah also wrote two songs for and arranged the 2003 #1 album ‘Pure’ with Hayley Westenra, before writing the music for the BBC/Harvey Weinstein production of ‘The Meerkats’ (a popular feature film which won ‘Best Score’ at the 2009 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival), and compositions for the BBC series ‘Madagascar’, which received an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Contribution to Music & Sound. More television commissions followed, and in 2012 the BBC/Discovery commissioned Sarah to compose and produce the music for the nature documentary series ‘Africa’, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, which was also nominated at the 2014 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Music & Sound. Sarah’s latest film commissions include director Peter Nicholson’s debut feature, the dark thriller Dartmoor Killing, which won this year’s Best Thriller in the National film Awards and also just released, Warner Films, Brothers of the Wind, including the main theme which was taken from Sarah’s new single I Wish (Radio Edit) to be released this year. Despite Sarah’s classical training she only learnt to sing and play guitar in 2007. Sarah said, “It was a huge step for me, but I want to reach out and connect directly as an artist and songwriter in my own right, so I had to do it.” Sarah went on to release her debut singer/songwriter album Unity at the end of 2015 produced by multi Grammy Award winning producer Jay Newland (Norah Jones, Gregory Porter) The single Northern Shore was released October 2nd 2015. The video features Sarah surfing and swimming with hundreds of wild dolphins as a mermaid!” Sarah’s continuing work with The World Land Trust helps combine her love of nature and the environment whilst contributing to saving endangered species and natural habitat through her music.WLT have saved over 400,000 acres of rainforest and other natural habitat over the past 20 years and her work with the charity is something very dear to her heart. In 2014 WLT made Sarah an Ambassador for the charity and Sarah has performed charity gigs and has worked with some of it’s high profile patron/sponsors, Bill Oddie, Sir David Attenborough and Chris Packham, BRIT and Emmy nominated singer/songwriter and composer, Sarah's music is a mesmerising mix of lush harmonies and epic folk, pop and classical elements..