Ella O’Neill

Ella O’Neill was the winner of the Help Musicians UK Accompanist’s Prize in the 2019 Kathleen Ferrier Awards at Wigmore Hall. Recital venues have included the Zankel and Weill Recital Halls at Carnegie Hall as a SongStudio artist, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Cadogan Hall, the Royal Opera House Crush Room, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Heidelberger Frühling Lied Festival, Oxford International Song Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival and Brighton Festival.
It was in the Brighton Festival that Ella first collaborated with Roderick Williams, with whom she reunited in summer 2022 to perform Schubert’s Winterreise in the Opera in Song series at Opera Holland Park. Ella has also performed live on BBC Radio 3 In Tune numerous times with artists including Roderick Williams, Mark Padmore and Laurence Kilsby.
Ella is a Samling artist and works regularly as a staff pianist with Samling Institute for Young Artists, as well as Oxenfoord International Summer School and her alma mater the Royal College of Music, where she was the Lord and Lady Lurgan Collaborative Piano Fellow 2022-24. As a répétiteur, Ella has worked on productions at Grange Park Opera, English Touring Opera and the Tête à Tête Festival.
She also enjoys a long-standing professional relationship with voice teacher Rosa Mannion, which has enabled Ella to develop a thorough understanding of vocal technique and how best to support singers as a vocal coach. During her studies at the RCM, Ella studied predominantly with Simon Lepper, alongside Kathron Sturrock and Roger Vignoles.