About.
Saltburn-by-the-sea soprano Rowan Pierce received the President’s Award from HRH The Prince of Wales at RCM in 2017, the First Prize & Song Prize at the inaugural Grange Festival International Festival and the first Schubert Society Singer Prize. She was a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment and a Harewood Artist at ENO.
She has appeared on the concert platform throughout Europe and in North and South America with leading ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Consort, Freiburg Baroque, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the English Concert, Rotterdam Philharmonic, RLPO and CBSO. She made both her Proms and Wigmore Hall debuts in 2017.
Rowan appears frequently at festivals in the UK & Europe. Recent highlights include 2019’s Edinburgh Festival with The English Concert and collaborations with Sir Thomas Allen & Christopher Glynn in Ryedale Festival, Dame Anne Murray & Malcolm Martineau in Oxford Lieder & Roger Vignoles in Leeds Lieder.
Opera appearances include roles in Albert Herring, L’enfant et les Sortilèges (as a Samling Artist), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Snape), Marriage of Figaro (ENO & Grange Festival), The Magic Flute and Paul Bunyan (ENO), Dido & Aeneas (AAM), Caldara’s Lucio Papirio Dittatore (Buxton Festival) and The Indian Queen (Opéra de Lille). In 2020, Rowan will sing in Handel’s Alcina at Glyndebourne.
Discography includes Purcell: The Cares of Lovers (Lynn); Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica, RLPO (Onyx); King Arthur, Gabrieli (Signum); Acis & Galatea (Chandos/BBC Music Magazine Opera Award Winner 2019).
She has appeared on the concert platform throughout Europe and in North and South America with leading ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Consort, Freiburg Baroque, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the English Concert, Rotterdam Philharmonic, RLPO and CBSO. She made both her Proms and Wigmore Hall debuts in 2017.
Rowan appears frequently at festivals in the UK & Europe. Recent highlights include 2019’s Edinburgh Festival with The English Concert and collaborations with Sir Thomas Allen & Christopher Glynn in Ryedale Festival, Dame Anne Murray & Malcolm Martineau in Oxford Lieder & Roger Vignoles in Leeds Lieder.
Opera appearances include roles in Albert Herring, L’enfant et les Sortilèges (as a Samling Artist), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Snape), Marriage of Figaro (ENO & Grange Festival), The Magic Flute and Paul Bunyan (ENO), Dido & Aeneas (AAM), Caldara’s Lucio Papirio Dittatore (Buxton Festival) and The Indian Queen (Opéra de Lille). In 2020, Rowan will sing in Handel’s Alcina at Glyndebourne.
Discography includes Purcell: The Cares of Lovers (Lynn); Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica, RLPO (Onyx); King Arthur, Gabrieli (Signum); Acis & Galatea (Chandos/BBC Music Magazine Opera Award Winner 2019).