Catalan mezzosoprano, Mercè Bruguera is a postgraduate-student at the Royal Academy of Music studying with Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Joseph Middleton. A member of a semi-professional children’s choir from an early age, she is now singing around Europe in professional choirs as well as pursuing a career as a soloist. Operatically, Mercè made her debut as Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Her time at the Academy has included operatic experience (Cornelia in Handel’s Giulio Cesare a Fairy in Dvorak’s Rusalka) and in 2018 she won the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize as well as being a member of the prestigious Academy ‘Song Circle’ and the ‘Bach the European’ series. Recent highlights as soloist include Mozart’s Requiem in Verona and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Barcelona.