Rowan Pierce - Soprano

Yorkshire born soprano Rowan Pierce received the President’s Award from HRH The Prince of Wales at RCM in 2017, the First Prize and Song Prize at the Grange Festival International Singing Competition and the Schubert Society singer prize.  She was a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera.

She has appeared on the concert platform throughout Europe, North and South America with ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Consort, Freiburg Baroque, Scottish Chamber,  BBC Scottish Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras.   She made her debuts at the BBC Proms Festival and Wigmore Hall in 2017 and has subsequently returned to both.

Rowan appears frequently at Festivals in the UK and in Europe.  Highlights include appearances in the Edinburgh International Festival with the English Concert and the RSNO,  collaborations with Sir Thomas Allen and Christopher Glynn at the Ryedale Festival, Dame Anne Murray and Malcolm Martineau at the Oxford Lieder Festival and with Roger Vignoles at the Leeds Lieder Festival.  Recent and future concerts include Israel in Egypt with the SCO, Messiah and the Creation with the Hallé, Christmas Oratorio with the Britten Sinfonia and concerts with Les Arts Florissants, Early Opera Company, Music of the Baroque, Irish Baroque and Florilegium.

Opera appearances include Miss Wordsworth / Albert Herring, Princess / L’enfant et les Sortilèges, Drusilla / L’incoronazione di Poppea, Susanna / Le nozze di Figaro, Belinda / Dido and Aeneas, Tiny / Paul Bunyan, and Papiria / Lucio Papirio Dittatore.    Recent and future engagements include Oberto / Alcina (Glyndebourne Festival),   Papagena (The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) and Dede / A Quiet Place (Linbury at Covent Garden), Quivera / The Indian Queen (Opera de Lille, Opera du Caen and Opera du Luxembourg) under Emmanuelle Haim, Oberto (Staatstheater Stuttgart),   Barbarina (Grange Festival, ENO and Nevill Holt Opera) and Galatea (Vache Baroque Festival).

Rowan’s discography includes Purcell ‘The Cares of Lovers (Lynn), Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica with the RLPO (Onyx), King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort (Signum), Acis and Galatea with the Early Opera Company (Chandos), Schubert Lieder with Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn (Hyperion) and future releases include a disc of song by Roderick Williams on the Champs Hill label.