Hailing from Stirling in Central Scotland, mezzo-soprano Lauren Young was an inaugural artist at Mascarade Opera Studio and is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. A Britten Pears Young Artist and a recipient of an Independent Opera Scholarship and Fellowship, Lauren was a semi-finalist in the 42nd Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition, a finalist in the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform and the winner of the Clonter Opera Prize and Joaninha Trust Award.
Future work includes a return to English Touring Opera and her debut at Opera North. Recent engagements include Maurya/Riders to the Sea (Opera Up Close), Ted Huffman and Phillip Venables’ The F*ggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Ruhrtrinnale Festival), Baba/The Rake’s Progress, Tisbe/La Cenerentola, Mathilda/Ottone (English Touring Opera), Daughter of Akhnaten/Akhnaten, cover Maddalena/Rigoletto, cover Rossweisse/ The Valkyrie (English National Opera), Vana Sonendanz/Viva la Diva (Buxton International Festival).
Lauren made her Wigmore Hall debut as part of the Independent Opera Scholar’s Recital series. Recent concert highlights have included A Charm of Lullabies with Malcolm Martineu as part of the Britten Pears Britten Song Weekend and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Nicholas Daniels and the Orion Orchestra.