Rowan Pierce

Rowan Pierce is an Opperby Stokowski Scholar at the Royal College of Music, studying voice with Eiddwen Harrhy. She first began studying voice with Betty Middleton MBE at the age of seven. In 2006, while still at school, she started a two year period of study at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, traveling to London each Saturday to further her musical development, studying voice, flute and music theory.

In 2008 she took time out of academic studies and began to study voice with Miranda Wright. Whilst furthering her vocal ambitions, Rowan was employed for three years in the Music Department of Egglescliffe School in Stockton-on-Tees. Rowan has had vocal masterclasses with Mark Wildman, Ann Lampard, Mark Padmore and Emma Kirkby. She was a member of the Tees Valley Youth Choir for seven years under the direction of John Forsyth and later they performed several recitals around the North East, exploring Classical Guitar and Soprano repertoire together.

In November 2010 she was awarded the 'York Music Festival Singer of the Year' and earlier that year reached the national final of the first ever 'Courtney Kenny Award', run by the Association of English Singers and Speakers. She has performed professionally as a soprano soloist with a number of northeast choral societies and in 2011, took on her first main operatic role as Susanna in Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' at the Sage, Gateshead.