
LILY MO BROWNE
“…amazing dramatic talent”
Boris Koroshenko, Trunch Music Festival
Winner of the 70th Kathleen Ferrier awards, mezzo-soprano Lily Mo Browne is in her final year on the Masters Programme at the Royal College of Music. She studies under Ben Johnson and Caroline Dowdle, is generously supported by the Drake Calleja Trust, and is both a Robert Lancaster and Helen Majorie Tonks Scholar. In 2019, Lily placed third in the Junior Ferrier competition, and received the Pamela Hart award. Lily won the Somerset Song Prize, where she also received the Audience Prize, first prize in the AESS’s Patricia Routledge Senior Song Prize, second prize in the RCM’s Brook van der Pump English Song Final, as well as placing third in the Joan Chissell Schumann Competition. Lily was a Southrepps Music Festival Young Artist in 2022 and is a 2025 Verbier Festival Academy’s Atelier Lyrique Young Artist.
Winner of the 70th Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2025
Lily Mo Browne is thrilled to have won this year’s Kathleen Ferrier Competition. 2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the competition. Performing alongside duo partner, Ayane Nakajima, they presented a programme of opera, oratorio, and song at the Wigmore Hall on both the 23rd and 25th of April 2025.
“Browne made Stanford’s La Belle Dame Sans Merci… sound like England’s answer to Schubert… While she caught the mood shifts of Olga’s aria from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and drew out the drama of Fia dunque vero… Oh mio Fernando from Donizetti’s La Favorita, in Brahms’ Dein Blaue Auges it was her directness and focus that made the song succeed.’
‘Kathleen Ferrier Awards review- Lily Mo Browne takes top prize’ - The Sunday Times 2025
