"A great communicator and performer with bags of commitment. A talented artist with lots of potential!"
(Robert Murray)
“Wholly convincing and captivating from the start” (Charlotte Forrest), Siân is an up-and-coming young soprano with a passion for communication and storytelling.
Since graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) in 2022, Siân has sung with companies including Mid Wales Opera (Dew Fairy, Sandman, and cover Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and Apparition/Witch in Verdi’s Macbeth), Hampstead Garden Opera (Pepík in Janáček’s Příhody lišky Bystroušky), Opera in a Box (Gretel in Hansel and Gretel ) and West Green House Opera (Bridesmaid/chorus in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Chorus in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd).
Siân will make her role debut as Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro with Opera Project in Autumn 2024.
Before leaving RBC, Siân performed La Statue in Pigmalion and as Argienne in Nelée et Myrthis at Le Théâtre Basse Passière. This was her first foray into early music after spending much of her time at RBC emerged in the world of contemporary repertoire, having performed the title role of Coraline by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Winnie Cook in Stephen McNeff’s Banished, and Maria Bertram in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park. Other roles at RBC include Zweite Knabe in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and opera scenes included Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte, Ophélie in Hamlet, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, First Nymph in Rusalka, and Flora in The Turn of the Screw.
In 2022, Siân received the St Clare Barfield Rosebowl for Operatic Distinction, 2nd place in the Mario Lanza Opera Prize, and 3rd place in the Ashleyan Opera Prize. She is the winner of the Stuart Cameron Smith French Song Duo Prize 2021, alongside pianist Angus Smith; the Edward Brooks English Song Prize 2020; the Gordon Clinton English Song Prize 2020 and; was a finalist in the Cecil Drew Oratorio Prize 2019.