Ellen Pearson

British mezzo-soprano Ellen Pearson joins the Jette Parker Artists Programme in the 2025/26 Season. Pearson also joins the Lies Askonas Singers’ Fellowship with Askonas Holt in the 2025/26 Season. She is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music (First-Class Honours), and the Royal College of Music (Master’s of Music with Distinction). In the 2024/25 Season, Ellen was an Opera Prelude Artist, an artist on the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange programme, an Oxford International Song Young Artist, a Samling Artist, a Shipston Song Rising Star and a Britten Pears Young Artist. She is a former 2023/24 Opera Holland Park Young Artist where she sang the role of Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia).

Other roles include La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi) at the Verbier Festival, Donna Ximena (Don Giovanni), Anna Swann (Barnum’s Bird by Libby Larsen) and cover Il Cucolo (La bella dormente nel bosco) at the Royal College of Music and Uno di Due Donne (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Awards include the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2025, the Nigel Beale First Prize and the Anthony Lowrey Audience Prize at the 2024 Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year and First Prize and Best Duo Prize with Archie Bonham in the 2024 Ashburnham English Song Competition.

2025/26 Royal Opera roles include Second Lady (The Magic Flute), Flora Bervoix (La traviata) and Julia and Irina in the JPAP chamber productions of The Departure by Elizabeth Maconchy and Four Sisters by Elena Langer. Cover roles include Hotel Maid (The Makropulos Case), Giovanna (Rigoletto) and Enrichetta di Francia (I puritani).