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

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

Prior to her studies at RAM, she attained both her Master of Music and Postgraduate Diploma: Advanced Studies in Performance with Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music, where she studied with Eiddwen Harrhy.

Her performed roles include Lady Billows Albert Herring, Countess Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Mrs Gobineau The Medium and Ellen Orford Peter Grimes, along with scenes as Arabella Arabella, Mimì La bohème, Fiordiligi Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni, Elettra Idomeneo, Ellen Orford Peter Grimes and Magda La Rondine.

She has performed in concert with the Hallé, Philharmonia Orchestra, the Central London Orchestra and the Philzuid, and has made debuts at Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, and the Edinburgh International Festival. Competition success includes winning the 2024 Wellington Regional Aria, and runner-up in the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award where she also won the Mozart Prize. She placed 3rd in the Elizabeth Connell Prize and won the Staetshuys Fonds 3rd Prize as well as the Van Amelsvoort Prize for her interpretation and world orchestral debut of ‘Veronese’s Green’ at the s’-Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition. She was runnerup in the 2024 Clonter Opera Prize and the 2023 Lockwood New Zealand Aria. She was the winner of the 2023 Richard Lewis/ Jean Shanks Prize (RAM), 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. In 2022 she won the Bessie Cronshaw/Frost Brownson Song Cycle Prize at the RNCM along with the Brigitte Fassbaender Award for the best singing of Lieder.

Madison gratefully acknowledges the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation who have provided her with mentoring and financial support.