Rowan Pierce started her career as a Britten Pears young artist, Samling artist, a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera.

Rowan made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 with the OAE and performs on concert platforms worldwide, appearing regularly with ensembles including the AAM, Dunedin Consort, Early Opera Company, Les Arts Florissants, Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Other recent highlights include performances with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Visits to the US in 2019 included appearances with the OAE at Lincoln Center, New York and with AAM in San Francisco and at Disney Hall, Los Angeles. She also gave a recital at Kennedy Center, Washington with Richard Egarr and William Carter in January 2020 and toured in New York with Philharmonia Baroque in 2021 at Caramoor Festival and the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park.

Nominated for The Times Sky Arts Award for opera in 2020, her operatic roles have included: Belinda/Dido and Aeneas, Galatea/Acis & Galatea, Iris/Semele, Iphis and Angel/Jephtha, Dorinda/Orlando, Elsie/The Yeomen of the Guard, Tiny/Paul Bunyan, Papagena/The Magic Flute, Barbarina/The Marriage of Figaro. She has performed multiple roles in Purcell’s King Arthur and The Fairy Queen and Quivera and Orazia/The Indian Queen with Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Luxembourg, Opéra de Caen and Antwerp Opera under Emmanuelle Haïm. Her Glyndebourne Festival debut was Oberto/Alcina and she sang the same role for Stuttgart Staatstheater in 2022. In 2022/23 she made her Royal Opera House début singing Papagena and in 2024 played the role of Dede in Oliver Mears’ new production of Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place.