Madison Horman performs as soprano soloist in the NYO Adventure concert.

27-year-old New Zealand soprano Madison Horman is currently a Bicentenary Scholar studying towards an Advanced Diploma in Opera at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM). She studies 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 (RNCM); where studying with Eiddwen Harrhy, she attained her Master of Music with Distinction as well as a Postgraduate Diploma: Advanced Studies in Performance. 

​Since beginning at the RAM, Madison has performed the roles of Lady Billows and Countess Almaviva in the Royal Academy Operas performances of Britten’s Albert Herring and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. She has also sung the roles of Mimì, Arabella, Fiordiligi and Ellen Orford in opera scenes of La bohème, Arabella, Così fan tutte and Peter Grimes, and made her Wigmore Hall debut in a masterclass with American soprano Roberta Alexander.

In 2024, she was runner up at the Clonter Opera Prize where she represented the Academy competing against the five other leading UK Conservatoires, and was a Semi-Finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Award at Wigmore Hall. In 2023 she won the Richard Lewis/ Jean Shanks Award for singing and placed second in the in the Lockwood New Zealand Aria Competition where she also won the German Lied. She was awarded the Tait ROSL Award for the most outstanding New Zealand/Australian musician at the 2023 Royal Over-Seas League overseas final.

​In 2022 she made her Bridgewater Hall debut preforming both the small role of Cousin, and as part of the ensemble in Puccini’s Madam Butterfly with the Hallé conducted by Sir Mark Elder, and made her Edinburgh International Festival debut performing alongside the Philharmonia Voices in a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.

​Madison’s studies are generously supported by the Royal Academy of Music’s Bicentenary Scholarship, the Wayne Sleep Foundation, and Madison gratefully acknowledges the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation who have provided her with mentoring and financial support.