The Art of Time Ensemble, led by Artistic Director, Andrew Burashko brings one of its classic ‘songbook’ programmes, featuring the sensational Sarah Slean, with music by Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Sarah Slean, Brahms and many others.

Canadian bright light Sarah Slean is a four-time JUNO- and two-time GEMINI-nominated performer, and a CSA-winning composer with 25 years of wide-ranging experience in music. Joined by Ottawa’s Ironwood Quartet, this special collaboration will feature Sarah’s original chamber compositions, vintage…

Sarah is thrilled to be working on two new commissions for the National Arts Centre Orchestra and their spectacular 2023-24 season! The concerts will feature some outstanding singers from the Canadian Opera Company - more soon! Big Hint: Clara Schumann……

BIGLAKE and BASE31 are proud to present a very special concert celebrating the 80th birthday of Canada’s musical legend and hero, Joni Mitchell. Multi JUNO and GEMINI nominated performer, singer songwriter Sarah Slean has performed this programme for sold-out audiences…

Sarah will be singing an expanded program of Joni Mitchell music this October 28th with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra! New charts will include “Circle Game”, “River”, “Hejira”, “Refuge of the Roads” and more… Sarah first sang selections from Joni's Travelogue…

Sarah was a composer on Season 3 of the hit show “Detention Adventure” alongside talented composers Amin Bhatia, Ari Posner and Antonio Naranjo, and the music has just been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (Best Original Music - Comedy)…

Sarah will be hosting the national classical music program "About Time" for two weeks this summer - July 25-29th and August 22-26th! Mark you calendars and tune in for some fascinating modern choices and the timeless classics... 

Two trips to beautiful BC within 6 months! Sarah will be performing with the Kamloops Symphony March 10-11 in 2023 for their spring season.  This will be the third orchestra in British Colombia that Sarah has collaborated with - first…

Sarah will make her debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra this October 28th and 29th at the stunning Orpheum Theatre as part of the VSO's 2022-23 season! Sarah will be singing a program of Joni Mitchell songs from the Travelogue…

Sarah will be singing the program of beautifully orchestrated Joni Mitchell songs with the fabulous musicians of the Calgary Philharmonic on April 9th (next Saturday) conducted by Karl Hirzer!

Stay tuned here for another orchestra debut announcement coming very soon…

Stages are opening up again and we couldn't be happier! Sarah has performed a program of Joni Mitchell songs (as orchestrated by the legendary jazz composer Vince Mendoza) with the Niagara Symphony Orchestra on February 19 and 20th and recently…

Sarah has been newly elected to SOCAN's Board of Directors! SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) administers and protects the performing and reproduction rights of more than 160,000 songwriters, music publishers, composers, and visual artists. In…

Hurray - many exciting shows to announce this week, and more next week! 

Sarah will be performing a full set of Joni Mitchell's exquisite music, arranged for full orchestra, with both the Niagara and Regina Symphonies.  These are the original…

This will look nice on the piano! Heartfelt thanks to the entire Detention Adventure team, and my excellent music colleagues with whom I share this incredible honour! 

In May, Sarah won her first Canadian Screen Award, alongside her co-composers Ari Posner, Amin Bhatia and songwriter Antonio Naranjo, for her work on the show "Detention Adventure"! Huge thanks to the amazing team on this show - from the…

Sarah has been nominated in the category of "Best Original Music - Fiction" for her composing work on the series Detention Adventure (HBO, CBC GEM)! This is her first CSA nomination. Sarah co-composed the score for Season 2 with esteemed…

WOW! Sarah's collaboration with Symphony Nova Scotia and composer Christos Hatzis has been nominated for a Juno Award, Canada's celebrated music prize, in the "Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral" category!! Congratulations to all our wonderful colleagues on…

We're pleased to announce that Sarah's collaboration with Symphony Nova Scotia and composer Christos Hatzis has been nominated for an East Coast Music Award - wooooo! Congratulations to all the musicians, Christos, producer Jeff Reilly, conductor Bernhard Gueller and all…

Three concerts with orchestras on Sarah's schedule for the 2020 season have been cancelled or rescheduled. The National Arts Centre Orchestra date on April 17 and Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec April 24-25 have both been cancelled. We hope to present…

SLEAN / HAWKSLEY WORKMAN 2020 TOUR 

That’s right, these spiritual siblings are teaming up again for 9 tour dates in 2020! 
They will be playing and singing on each other’s songs, and bringing two extra musicians with them. 

Stories, laughs…

Hey everybody – I’ve missed you! So much news! Read on… 

SYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIA: CONTEST ALERT! 

After months of prep – I’ll finally be in Halifax this week with Symphony Nova Scotia rehearsing for our big shows this Friday November…

Sarah penned a dark and mournful song called “Personne ne M’Entend” for the season finale of CTV’s crime drama “Cardinal” with friends Todor Kobakov (the composer for the series) and First Nations singer/songwriter Jacques Nadjiwon. To be released worldwide later…

Sarah has been a resident film composer at the Canadian Film Centre since July 2017. The CFC will be taking the composers to Los Angeles mid-March for a week of film scoring activities – woo! 
Sarah has been writing and…

What an incredible concert with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra on Saturday March 3rd! 

Sarah sang a full selection of Mitchell songs from the acclaimed albums “Travelogue” and “Both Sides Now”, as arranged by multi-Grammy Award winner Vince Mendoza – who…

Today, singer-songstress Sarah Slean announces her upcoming Canadian fall tour in support of her 9th studio album, Metaphysics. Metaphysics was released on April 7th via Cadence Music/Fontana North and features two CBC Radio 2 – Top 20 songs Sarah and…