Rowan Pierce has rapidly established herself as one of today’s leading young singers, having first worked with Paul McCreesh as a teenager in one of Gabrieli’s young singers’ projects. She came to public attention whilst at the Royal College of Music, where she won both the Major van Someren-Godfrey Prize and the President’s Award, subsequently winning further prizes at the Grange Festival’s inaugural Singing Competition. She is now a Harewood Artist at English National Opera, a ‘Rising Star’ of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and has worked with Gabrieli, the Academy of Ancient Music, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber orchestras.