Rosie Lavery is a ‘Ginger Soprano’, currently studying at the Alexander Gibson Opera School at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Wilma MacDougall. Rosie is a Dewar Arts Young Artist and is the recipient of the John Mathers Rising Star award and the Sybil Tutton Opera Award. She is also the proud recipient of the Salomon Seelig Musicians’ Company Award 2020. A multiple prize winner, Rosie won the prestigious Governor’s Recital Prize at RCS and was awarded 2nd place in the Hugh Robertson Scots Song Competition and the French Song Competition. She was also delighted to win the Florence Veitch Ibler Prize for Oratorio Singing, and in 2022 won 2nd place at The Charles Wood Singing Competition in Northern Ireland. She continues to perform recital programmes across Scotland, in venues such as the Usher Hall, Dundee Caird Hall, The House of an Art Lover, Paxton House and St Giles’ Cathedral. Rosie is delighted to be a Live Music Now musician alongside her duo partner Anna Michels.

Rosie has performed across Europe, including performances of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in the Palazzo Corsini in Florence and has performed solo recitals in Amsterdam’s Royal Tuschinski Theatre and the Draaigelorgelmuseum Haarlem. Operatic roles include Ellen Orford Peter Grimes, Jade Dead Man Walking, Maria The Witnesses by Jacqueline Hazel, Mutter Hänsel und Gretel, Frau Fluth Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, title role Suor Angelica, Fiordiligi Così fan tutte, Nedda Pagliacci, Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw, Rosalinde Die Fledermaus, and Soprano Opera for One. 

In 2022, Rosie was the solo soprano with Ensemble Mik Nawooj at their show The Hip Hop Orchestra Experience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Rosie has also completed an Artist Residency at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow as one of two singers in a live art installation titled An Atmosphere of Joyful Contemplation. She has been involved in various projects with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, including a radio recording of Bartok’s Der wunderbare Mandarin. 

Rosie is the Assistant Director for Offstage Opera, the Chorus Director for Paisley Opera and the Musical Director for Sounds International Choir, Glasgow Caledonia University Choir and the Eaglesham and Waterfoot Community Choir.

In demand on the concert platform and operatic stage, Rosie is currently preparing for various upcoming operas and recitals across the UK. Upcoming roles include Elettra Idomeneo, Noémie Cendrillon, Beatrice Three Decembers by Jake Hegge, and Mrs Gobineau The Medium.

Find out more about Rosie’s upcoming projects here.

Please contact Rosie for an up to date biography.