Sarah Sayeed

About Sarah Sayeed

Sarah Sayeed is a musician, composer, sound designer and writer with over 15 years of experience working collaboratively with a range of artists and on productions.

As a musical artist, her practice focuses around contemporary works that are influenced by a plethora of styles and musical traditions. Sarah has created compositions and sound designs across Western classical choral works, Indian and Bengali classical vocals, instrumental pieces and her first love: contemporary jazz, soul and hip hop. Sarah plays instruments tanpura and shruti, and is the lead vocalist in international duet Myth of Her with violin and electronic artist Anne Eltard (Copenhagen, Denmark). Sarah is currently training in classical vocals with leading Classical Indian Music maestro Swati Natekar and was the successful recipient of the Portfolio Composers Scheme in partnership with Sound and Music and Kuljit Bhamra.

Sarahs credits include Composer and Sound Designer for Santi and Naz (The Thelmas), Composer and Sound Designer for We Are Shadows (Tamasha), Principle Musician in Richard 2nd at Shakespeare's Globe (2019, Composer & Musical Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company adaption of Moliere's Tartuffe (2019/2018) and Sound Designer for Contact Theatre's production on Suffragette Movement, She Bangs The Drums (2018). In 2021 she worked on Ten Nights directed by Kash Arshad (co-production with Graeae and Tamasha) and Shakespeare's in Italy A Merchant of Venice, directed by Bill Alexander.
Artistic commissions include Sound and Music's Portfolio composers programme and Curating Sound Travels with the British Music collection/ Google Curate.


Sarah has recently finished her first major dance score Alexa Stop for SAA -UK (South Asian Arts) and has worked on Born and Bread with Brighton People's Theatre.
Sarah's compositions for Tartuffe are currently being reworked for the new remounting at Birmingham Rep.