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The Scottish soprano, Isla Anderson MacEwan, began her vocal training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Junior Department (2011-2013), before graduating with first class honours from the Royal Northern College of Music (2013-2017). She is currently studying for a Master of Arts degree on scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Alexander Ashworth (since August 2020). She was the 2020 recipient of the Oratorio Prize at the David Clover Singing Competition. In 2020, she won the English Song Prize at the David Clover Singing Competition and received Highly Commended in the Michael Head English Song Prize with her accompanist, Max Bilbe, at the Royal Academy of Music. She is generously supported by the Caird Trust, Mario Lanza Educational Foundation and Split Infinitive Trust.
Isla MacEwan is a versatile lyric-soprano, and an accomplished singer of George Frideric Handel repertoire. She has sung as the soprano soloist in the Messiah on several occasions across the UK as well as Iris in Jephtha with Knutsford Choral Society. In 2019, she toured across Scotland with the Baroque ensemble The Kellie Consort, performing a programme including Purcell’s Te Deum and Jubilate accompanied by period instruments. Other solo oratorio repertoire includes Johannes Brahms' Requiem, W.A. Mozart's Requiem, W.A. Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate, Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, Camille Saint-Saëns' Christmas Oratorio, Haydn's The Creation, Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria and Schubert's Mass in G.
On the opera stage, Isla MacEwan has sung under the baton of Vasily Petrenko in a production of Falstaff with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in collaboration with the European Opera Centre. She has also sung the roles of Susanna in an English translation of W.A. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Flatpack Opera, the Governess in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw with Leeds Youth Opera and the Apparition in Macbeth with Dorset Opera.
In recital, Isla MacEwan has performed in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Recital Hall, Bradford Cathedral and Rekstensamlingene Recital Hall in Bergen, Norway. She currently lives in London, England. |
