Alison Rose

Alison Rose is currently on the Masters programme at the Royal Academy of Music where she studies with Ryland Davies and Audrey Hyland. She graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with First Class Honours.

At the RNCM she was awarded the Brigitte Fassbaender Award for Lieder and the Claire Croiza Prize for French Song and was awarded the 2011 Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize at the Academy.

Operatic roles have included Servilia- La Clemenza Di Titio, Barbarina- Le Nozze Di Figaro (cover) and La Princesse-L’Enfant et les Sortilege (cover), all for RNCM Opera.

Concert engagements have included Bach’s Cantata 151 with the RNCM Chamber Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Kraemer, Handel’s Messiah and Samson, Saint-Saëns Oratorio de Noël and Haydn’s Harmoniemesse. She has performed several times for the Yorke Trust including performances of Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Israel in Egypt and Bach’s Magnificat.

Recent and forthcoming engagements include Mendelssohn’s AMidsummer Night’s Dream with the Manchester Camerata conducted by Douglas Boyd, a performance of Handel’s Gloria for Soprano and Strings and Mahler Symphony No 4 at the Two Moors Festival.

Alison’s studies are generously supported by a Maidment Scholarship administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the William Gibbs Religious and Educational Trust.