Welsh mezzo-soprano Angharad Rowlands studies at Royal Academy Opera under Raymond Connell and Iain Ledingham. She is gratefully supported by the Norman Ayrton Award, the Carr-Gregory Trust and the Josephine Baker Trust.
Angharad is the winner of the 2022 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award Song Prize and Major Van Someren-Godfrey Prize, an Oxford Lieder Young Artist for 2022-24 and a member of the Academy Song Circle.
Her opera roles include 2nd Bridesmaid/Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Opera House); Cherubino/ Le nozze di Figaro (RAO); Dido/Dido & Aeneas (Hurn Court Opera); 2nd Witch/Dido & Aeneas (RAO); and Nancy/Albert Herring (Byre Opera).
She has performed in scenes from Béatrice et Bénédict, Der Rosenkavalier, Così fan tutte, Werther and Don Giovanni. Under Sir John Eliot Gardiner Angharad has performed as an oratorio step-out soloist at the Salzburg Festival, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Philharmonie de Paris and Kursaal in San Sebastián. As part of the RAM’s Bach series she has performed as a soloist under Philippe Herreweghe, John Butt, Rachel Podger and Peter Whelan.