Alison Pearce has a distinguished international career as a soprano soloist in oratorio, opera and recital.  She appears with the world's leading conductors and orchestras at major venues and festivals as well as broadcasting for radio and television in many countries.  She is a vocal professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the artistic director of a European Summer School for Singers in Tuscany.  She also gives masterclasses and lectures for Birkbeck College in their series in association with the Royal Opera House, and in additon for the Royal Academy of Music, with regular invitations to visit other conservatoires around the world.

Her major operatic prima donna roles include those in Tosca, Nabucco, I Lombardi, Fidelio, Aïda, Ariadne auf Naxos, as well as Faust. She has worked for the English National Opera, at the Royal Opera Covent Garden and, for the Dublin International City of Culture celebrations she sang the title role in a production of Manon Lescaut by Puccini, which she repeated in Israel with the role of Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. Her career in Italy culminated in a revival of Monteverdi's Opera Orpheo e Eurydice in which she sang Eurydice.

Concert engagements include regular performances at major festivals in Brighton, Cheltenham with Sylvian Cambreling, Worcester with Sir Charles Groves and Hereford Three Choirs, as well as Flanders, Spain with Antonio Ros Marba, Norway, France, Israel and Poland.  Alison has also had the pleasure of touring Spain with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for performances of Mahler's Eighth Symphony with Libor Pesek, singing Handel's Messiah throughout France and Britten's War Requiem in the Netherlands.  Other highlights in the UK are performances of Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs in London, Elis Pehkonen's Russian Requiem with the Bach Choir and Sir David Willcocks, and William Mathias' Lux Aeterna at the Three Choirs Festival with the RLPO conducted by Dr Roy Massey.

Last season's engagements featured a series of recitals and master-classes in Hong-Kong, Poland, Norway, Italy and the Netherlands, and Verdi Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall and in the Concertgebouw.  There were also many appearances throughout the UK including Hexham Abbey Festival and Swansea Festival, and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Mozart Players, as well as Opera Galas in Hong Kong and Belgium and Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. She was also invited to sit as one of the judges for the Vocal Category of the British Composers Awards in association with BBC Radio 3.

Alison recently appeared as a guest artist with the Alberni String Quartet, singing the music of Chausson, Bach, Purcell, Sondheim and Weill; in Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra; The Hogarth Society’s birthday celebration in Covent Garden, Side by Side by Sondheim, and a cabaret evening at Jermyn Street theatre.  In addition, she has given recitals and masterclasses in Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, London and the UK. Her recording of French Songs by Chausson, Duparc, Satie and Messiaen is on the Wichman label.