Rowan Pierce

Yorkshire-born Rowan Pierce is a former Rising Star of the OAE and a Harewood Artist at ENO.  

She appears regularly with ensembles including AAM, Gabrieli Consort, SCO, BBC Scottish Symphony, OAE, City of Birmingham Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Les Arts Florissants and Florilegium and has appeared at the Wigmore Hall on many occasions both in recital and with chamber ensembles. 

Operatic roles include Tiny / Paul Bunyan and Papagena / The Magic Flute (ENO and Covent Garden), Dede / A Quiet Place (Linbury at Covent Garden) Barbarina / Le Nozze di Figaro (Nevill Holt Opera, Grange Festival, ENO), Papiria / Lucio Papirio Dittatore (Buxton), Oberto / Alcina (Glyndebourne and the Staatstheater Stuttgart) and Quivera and Orazia / The Indian Queen (Opéras de Lille,  Luxembourg and Caen and Antwerp Opera) all under Emmanuelle Haïm.  

Recent and future festival appearances include the Ryedale, Oxford Lieder, Bath, Cheltenham, BBC Proms, Lammermuir, Edinburgh, Oregon Bach, Leeds Lieder and Chiltern Arts Festivals.  

Recordings include a solo disc of Purcell songs, Vaughan Williams’ Ninth Symphony with the RLPO, the award-winning King Arthur and The Fairy Queen with the Gabrieli Consort, a disc of Schubert Songs and a disc of songs by Roderick Williams both with Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn.  

Rowan Pierce studied at the Royal College of Music where she won various awards. She subsequently won both the Song Prize and First Prize at the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition. She is a Samling Artist and was generously supported by the Countess of Munster Award and Midori Nishiura at the RCM.