LILY MO BROWNE
“…amazing dramatic talent”
Boris Koroshenko, Trunch Music Festival
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. Earlier this year, Lily placed second in the RCM’s Brook van der Pump English Song Final, as well as placing third in the Joan Chissell Schumann Competition. Most recently, Lily competed in and won the Somerset Song Prize, where she also received the Audience Prize, and received first prize in the AESS’s Patricia Routledge Senior Song Prize. Lily was a Southrepps Music Festival Young Artist in 2022 and a 2023 Emerging Artist at Nevill Holt Opera in Leicester.
Repertoire
Operatic roles include Second Witch (Dido and Aeneas), Old Lady (Candide), Zweite Dame and Dreite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), and La Regina (La bella dormente nel bosco). She recently debuted the role of Marie in Ed Driver’s Airtime, with the RCM International Opera Studio and Tete-A-Tete opera. Lily has been the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Hadyn’s Nelson Mass and Mozart’s Requiem. Most recently, she joined Martyn Brabbins and the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus as the alto soloist in Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, and will join Hounslow Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.
