Sally Matthews is the winner of the 1999 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She studied with Cynthia Jolly and Johanna Peters and completed the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2000. She studies with Paul Farrington and was a member of The Royal Opera Vilar Young Artist programme from 2001–2003.

In January 2001 she made her Royal Opera House debut as Nannetta Falstaff under Bernard Haitink. In the 2001-2002 season she returned to the Royal Opera House as a Flowermaiden Parsifal for Sir Simon Rattle and took part in Bernard Haitink’s Farewell Gala concerts singing Susanna in Act II of Le Nozze di Figaro. Last season, in her second year as a member of the Royal Opera Vilar Young Artist programme, she sang Pamina DieZaubeflöte and Iris Semele. Future plans for the Royal Opera House, as a guest artist, include Sophie Werther, conducted by Antonio Pappano.

Sally Matthews has appeared with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and made her BBC Proms debut in 2001 singing Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin. Other appearances include concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra under Boulez singing Debussy’s Martyre de Saint Sebastien, and Britten’s Peter Grimes with Sir Colin Davis ,where she made her New York debut at Lincoln Center, Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream with the London Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, Carmina Burana with the Royal Philharmonic under Daniele Gatti, performances of Messiah with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Haydn’s Creation with the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder, an appearance at the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart Festival singing excerpts from Le Nozze di Figaro with Joseph Swensen and the Academy of St.Martin’s in the Fields and Brahms’ Requiem with the BBC Symphony under Walter Weller.

Sally Matthews appears in Mozart's Great Mass on October 15 and 17, 2004.

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