Rowan Pierce

Saltburn-by-the-sea soprano Rowan Pierce was awarded the President’s Award by HRH Prince of Wales, now King Charles III, 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 in 2017, the first Schubert Society Singer Prize in 2014, and the Van Someren Godfery Prize at the RCM. Baroque Blockbusters! on March 1 & 2 marks her debut with Music of the Baroque.

Rowan Pierce was a Britten Pears young artist, Samling artist, a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera.

Rowan Pierce made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 with the OAE and returned in 2019 for Handel’s Jephtha and in 2023 for Mendelssohn’s Elijah, both with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. She made her Wigmore Hall debut in 2017 with the London Handel Players and has subsequently appeared there with many other chamber ensembles in both early and late repertoire.

Rowan Pierce performs on concert platforms worldwide, appearing regularly with ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, Dunedin Consort, Early Opera Company, Les Arts Florissants, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Gabrieli Consort, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Other highlights include performances with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Freiburg Baroque, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC NOW, and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Visits to the US in 2019 included appearances with the OAE at the Lincoln Center in New York, with the Academy of Ancient Music in San Francisco, and at the Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Rowan Pierce also gave a recital at the Kennedy Center with Richard Egarr and William Carter in January 2020 and toured in New York with Philharmonia Baroque, singing music by Henry Purcell in 2021 at Caramoor Festival and at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park.

Rowan Pierce’s discography includes Purcell ‘The Cares of Lovers’ with Richard Egarr and William Carter (Linn Records); 2019 BBC Music Magazine Opera Award winner Acis and Galatea with the Early Opera Company / Christian Curnyn (Chandos); An English Coronation and King Arthur (BBC Music Magazine Opera Award nominee 2020) with the Gabrieli Consort / McCreesh (Signum); Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 7 (Antartica) with the RLPO / Manze (Onyx). She was the voice of the singer Siena Rosso in the Netflix series Bridgerton. Her most recent recording is a disc of Schubert songs with Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn for Signum.