About.
Yorkshire born soprano Rowan Pierce was awarded the President's Award by HRH Prince of Wales at the Royal College of Music in 2017. She won both the Song Prize and First Prize at the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition, the Van Someren Godfery Prize at the RCM and the first Schubert Society Singer Prize in 2014.
She has appeared on the concert platform throughout Europe and in South America and has performed with ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli Consort, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Early Opera Company, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Florilegium and Royal Northern Sinfonia. She made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall with the OAE and her Wigmore Hall debut with the London Handel Players in 2017.
As a Britten Pears Young Artist, she performed Drusilla in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. Other roles include Galatea in Handel's Acis & Galatea, Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando, Iris in Handel’s Semele, Susanna and Barbarina in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Miss Wordsworth, Emmie and Cis in Britten’s Albert Herring and Princess in Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges. She has also performed Elsie in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Yeomen of the Guard and various roles in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, The Fairy Queen and King Arthur.
Rowan is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera. She made her debut for ENO as Tiny in Britten’s Paul Bunyan and will perform Papagena in their production of The Magic Flute in 2019.
She has appeared on the concert platform throughout Europe and in South America and has performed with ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli Consort, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Early Opera Company, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Florilegium and Royal Northern Sinfonia. She made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall with the OAE and her Wigmore Hall debut with the London Handel Players in 2017.
As a Britten Pears Young Artist, she performed Drusilla in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. Other roles include Galatea in Handel's Acis & Galatea, Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando, Iris in Handel’s Semele, Susanna and Barbarina in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Miss Wordsworth, Emmie and Cis in Britten’s Albert Herring and Princess in Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges. She has also performed Elsie in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Yeomen of the Guard and various roles in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, The Fairy Queen and King Arthur.
Rowan is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera. She made her debut for ENO as Tiny in Britten’s Paul Bunyan and will perform Papagena in their production of The Magic Flute in 2019.