Eve Pearson Maxwell

Scottish soprano Eve Pearson Maxwell is currently studying for her Master of Performance at the Royal College of Music with Amanda Roocroft, as a Royal College of Music Scholar.

Her recent engagements include Arminda (La finta giardiniera) with the Royal College of Music Opera School; Susan B. Anthony and Ensemble in the Philharmonia’s performance of Laura Karpman’s Balls conducted by Marin Alsop; Chorus and cover Liù for Instant Opera’s Turandot; First Swan Maiden for Retrospect Opera’s recording of The Seal Woman with the Scottish Opera Orchestra; Dido (cover) in the Royal Conservatoire’s concert performance of Dido and Aeneas; and Chorus for the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio’s production of Mozart’s Idomeneo.

Eve’s operatic scene work includes Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Angelica (Orlando), Mrs Herring (Albert Herring), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Marzelline (Fidelio), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Mimì (La bohème), and Adele (Die Fledermaus). In 2025 she collaborated with the National Opera Studio Academy and the British Opera Academy through masterclasses, coachings, and performances.

She has been awarded numerous prizes, including First Prize at the Ashburnham English Song Awards and Second Prize at the Hertfordshire Opera Gala. Other distinctions include winning her category at the International Mozart Competition (Vienna) and First Prize in the Governors’ Recital Prize at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a finalist in the Chris Treglown and Eastbourne International Singing Competitions, and a semi-finalist in the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition.

During her undergraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Eve appeared as soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria and sang in performances of Mozart’s Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, and Duruflé’s Motets. She was selected for Karen Cargill’s Associate Artist Programme, performing Brahms’s Liebeslieder-Walzer and other Lieder at Drumlanrig Castle and The Cumnock Tryst. Eve has also recorded vocals for Rabid Film’s Fire and Lace, funded by the Clanranald Trust.

Eve is generously supported by a Royal College of Music Scholarship, The Allt Dearg Windmill Education Trust, The Argyll and Bute Education Trust, The McGlashan Trust, Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship, the Charles and Barbara Tyre Trust, the John Mather Trust, and the Dewar Arts Foundation.