Sally Matthews was the winner of the 1999 Kathleen Ferrier Award. Recent concert appearances have included Handel's Solomon at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival; her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic under Rattle with Carmina Burana;performances of Elijah at the Saito Kinen Festival, Japan with Seiji Osawa; Mahler's Symphony No 8 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Kent Nagano; Mahler Symphony No 4 with the London Philharmonic and also with Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in Amsterdam; Mahler Symphonies No 2 and No 4 with the London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas; Berg Seven Early Songs with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda; Peri in Schumann's Paradies und die Peri with Rattle and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Haydn's The Creation with the LSO and Sir Colin Davis in London and New York and The Seasons at the BBC Proms with Roger Norrington and with DSO Berlin and Andrew Manze. Sally has appeared frequently as a recitalist and was part of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme.