Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Lauren Young Mezzo Soprano

Recipient of Independent Opera Voice Scholarship 2019

Stirling-born mezzo Lauren completed a Bachelor of Education (Music) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. After two years working as a secondary school classroom music teacher, she returned to RCS to study for a Master of Music (Vocal Studies). She is now studying at the RCS Alexander Gibson Opera School under the tutelage of Linda Ormiston.

Operatic experience includes Baba The Turk (Cover) and Chorus The Rake’s Progress (British Youth Opera); Chorus Un Ballo in Maschera/Romeo et Juliette (Grange Park Opera); Marcellina The Marriage of Figaro (Magnetic Opera); Erste Mägde Elektra (Edinburgh Players Opera Group) Dorabella Cosi fan tutte; Giovanna Anna Bolena; Romeo I Capuleti e i Montecchi; Kate Julian Owen Wingrave (RCS Opera Scenes); Sorceress Dido and Aeneas; Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro; Jade Boucher (UK Staged Premiere) Dead Man Walking (RCS Opera School). Upcoming engagements include Cenerentola (Cover) La Cenerentola with British Youth Opera, Flosshilde Das Rheingold with Edinburgh Players Opera Group, Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia and Madame de Croissy Les Dialogues des Carmelites at RCS in 2020.

Concert experience includes Handel Messiah, Samson, Dixie Dominus, Israel in Egypt, Durufle Requiem, Mozart Requiem, Bach St. John Passion, Magnificat and B Minor Mass and Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle.

Lauren is a recipient of an Independent Opera Voice Scholarship and Fellowship, the John Mather Rising Star Award and the Stirlingshire Educational Trust Scholarship. She was runner-up in the prestigious Ye Cronies Opera Award 2019 and the winner of the Elgar-Spedding Memorial Lieder Prize 2019 at RCS with her duo partner Jose Javier Ucendo.

This biography was published in October 2019.