Madison Horman

New Zealand soprano Madison Horman recently graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Opera from the Royal Academy of Music as a Bicentenary Scholar under the tutelage of Nuccia Focile and Ingrid Surgenor, with personal mentorship from Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

In 2022 she completed her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music; where studying with Eiddwen Harrhy, she attained her Masters of Music with Distinction as well as a Postgraduate Diploma: Advanced Studies in Performance. 

​In 2024 she won the Wellington Regional Aria, placed third in the Elizabeth Connell Prize at Wigmore Halland was runner up at the Clonter Opera Prize where she represented the Academy competing against the five other leading UK Conservatoires.

She was runner up in the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award where she also won the Mozart Prize, a semifinalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Award, and third prize winner and winner of the Van Amelsvoort prize at the s’Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition. In 2023 she won the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award for singing, was runner-up in the Lockwood New Zealand Aria Competition where she also won the German Lieder class. She was awarded the Tait ROSL Award for the most outstanding New Zealand/Australian musician at the 2023 Royal Over-Seas League overseas final and was the recipient of a Wayne Sleep Foundation Award.

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