Praised for a voice of “great lyric beauty” (Gramophone), Welsh mezzo-soprano Angharad Rowlands is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 2025–27. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, she was generously supported by the Carr-Gregory Trust, the Norman Ayrton Award, and the Josephine Baker Trust. She is the winner of both the 2025 LCS Leach Award for Singing and 2022 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award Song Prize, and a 2024 International Handel Singing Competition finalist. At Royal Academy Opera, she performed the title role in Handel’s Ariodante, Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), and Florence Pike (Albert Herring). Other roles include 2nd Bridesmaid (Le nozze di Figaro - Royal Ballet & Opera); cover Juno (Semele - Opéra de Lille); cover Zweite Knappe (Parsifal - Glyndebourne); and Dido (Dido & Aeneas - Hurn Court Opera). Her concert highlights include Bach’s St Matthew Passion with John Eliot Gardiner; Handel’s Solomon with John Butt and the OAE; Rossini’s Ermione with Jakob Lehmann and the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras; and Bach’s St John Passion with Philippe Herreweghe. In recital, she collaborates regularly with Sholto Kynoch at the Oxford International Song Festival, and has appeared at Leeds Song, International Lied Festival Zeist, Handel Hendrix House, and Wigmore Hall.