Elizabeth Watts won the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2007. In the same year she was awarded the Outstanding Young Artist Award at the Cannes MIDEM Classique Awards and the previous year the Kathleen Ferrier Award. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre, and a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. Elizabeth was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in February 2011. Her critically acclaimed debut recording of Schubert Lieder for SONY Red Seal was followed in 2011 by an equally acclaimed disc of Bach Cantatas for Harmonia Mundi and most recently a Hyperion recording of the songs of R Strauss. Plans this season and beyond include Zerlina Don Giovanni for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Fiordiligi Così fan tutte for Welsh National Opera; a concert and recording of both CPE and JS Bach Magnificat with the Akademie führ Alte Musik and the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin; Handel Radamisto on tour with The English Concert, including Amsterdam and Barbican Hall, London; Mahler Symphony No 4 with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Marc Albrecht and the BBC SSO and Martyn Brabbins; Mozart Requiem with the LSO and Sir Colin Davis; Haydn Scena di Berenice with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Stravinsky Pulcinella with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Tapiola Sinfonietta, Finland with Masaaki Suzuki; Bach St John Passion and a Vivaldi programme with The Academy of Ancient Music and Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Manze. Recent concerts have included Brahms Requiem with the LPO and Yannick Nezét-Séguin; Beethoven Symphony No 9 with the SCO; Handel Joshua with the RIAS Kammerchor, Berlin; Mahler Symphony No 2 with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; Mahler Symphony No 4 with the LSO and Michael Tilson Thomas; Bruckner Requiem with the Northern Sinfonia; Kurtág Kafka Fragments for Soprano and Violin with Alexander Janicek and the Hebrides Ensemble; Strauss Orchestral Lieder with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as performances with all the BBC Orchestras, The English Concert, City of Birmingham Symphony and Hallé Orchestras. Operatic appearances have included Marzelline Fidelio for The Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro for Santa Fe Opera and Welsh National Opera, for whom Elizabeth has also sung Pamina Die Zauberflöte and Almirena Rinaldo for Glyndebourne on Tour. As a recitalist Elizabeth has performed at the UK’s leading venues including London’s Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and at the Aldeburgh and Cheltenham Festivals. Future plans include returning to the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and a number of appearances at Wigmore Hall. Elizabeth was a chorister at Norwich Cathedral and studied archaeology at Sheffield University before studying singing at the Royal College of Music in London. From 2005-2007 she was a member of English National Opera’s Young Singers Programme, where she appeared as Papagena Die Zauberflöte, Barbarina Figaro, Music and Hope in Monteverdi L’Orfeo and in Purcell King Arthur.