Ellen Pearson

Ellen Pearson is a Mezzo-Soprano from Kent. She has recently graduated with a Master’s of Music degree with distinction from the Royal College of Music, under the tutelage of Alison Wells.

Previously to this, she obtained a Bachelor’s of Music with First Class Honours from the Royal Northern College of Music.

Ellen is currently a Jette Parker Artist with the Royal Ballet and Opera (2025-2027), an Opera Prelude Artist, an artist on the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange programme, an Oxford International Song Young Artist (2024-2026), a Samling Artist, a Shipston Song Rising Star as well as a Britten Pears Young Artist.

Ellen was an Opera Holland Park Young Artist for their 2023-24 Season and portrayed the role of Rosina in the Opera Holland Park Young Artist production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini.

Other roles include: Donna Ximena in Don Giovanni by Gazzaniga (Royal College of Music); Anna Swann in Barnum’s Bird by Libby Larsen (Royal College of Music); Il Cucolo Cover in La Bella dormente nel bosco by Respighi (Royal College of Music); Uno di Due Donne in Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart (Royal Northern College of Music).

Ellen was recently awarded the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Other recent awards include the Nigel Beale First Prize and the Anthony Lowrey Audience Prize at the Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year, as well as both the First Prize and Best Duo Prize at the Ashburnham English Song Competition with one of her duo partners, Archie Bonham.