ANGHARAD ROWLANDS

Praised for a voice of “great lyric beauty” (Gramophone) and described as "a star in the making" (Radio Times), Welsh mezzo-soprano Angharad Rowlands is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 2025-27. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, she was generously supported by the Norman Ayrton Award, the Carr-Gregory Trust, and the Josephine Baker Trust. She is the winner of both the 2025 LCS Leach Award for Singing and 2022 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award Song Prize, and a 2024 International Handel Singing Competition finalist.

At Royal Academy Opera, Angharad performed the title role in Handel’s Ariodante; Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), and Florence Pike (Albert Herring). Other roles include 2nd Bridesmaid (Le nozze di Figaro - Royal Ballet & Opera); cover Juno (Semele - Opéra de Lille); cover Zweite Knappe (Parsifal - Glyndebourne); Quince/Fairy (The Fairy Queen - Longborough Festival Opera), and Dido (Dido & Aeneas - Hurn Court Opera).

Her concert highlights include Bach’s St Matthew Passion with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists; Handel’s Solomon with John Butt and the OAE; Rossini’s Ermione with Jakob Lehmann and Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras; Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Stephen Layton and the Britten Sinfonia, and Bach’s St John Passion with Philippe Herreweghe. As a soloist, she has performed in venues such as KKL Lucerne, Cadogan Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Kursaal in San Sebastián, Philharmonie de Paris, and Haus für Mozart in Salzburg.

In recital, Angharad regularly collaborates with Sholto Kynoch at the Oxford International Song Festival, and has appeared at Leeds Song, Handel Hendrix House, International Lied Festival Zeist, and Wigmore Hall.