Sarah Grace Graves

Sarah Grace Graves is a singer and composer working where recital meets ritual.

As a vocalist, she regularly performs demanding 20th- and 21st-century solo and chamber music, including Giacinto Scelsi’s Canti del Capricorno and Erin Gee’s Mouthpieces. Her solo project Three Names, created at the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, combines Scelsi’s Three Latin Prayers, Alvin Curran’s Three Ligurian Chants, and her own music. It has been performed internationally and was released by the Berlin label Elektramusic in 2025.

As a composer, she often writes for vocal ensemble. Recent commissions include pieces for Ensemble Aedes, Les Cris de Paris, and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Her vocal music is organized by gesture and position in space rather than by voice type, so any group of ambitious singers can perform it.

She is a laureate of the Voix Nouvelles Academy of the Fondation Royaumont and a PhD candidate in composition at UC Berkeley. She has taught vocal improvisation at KU Leuven, KASK & Conservatorium, and PXL Hasselt.