‘Ana Beard Fernández shines throughout with her clear, warm, voice that eloquently weaves over the harmonies and is suitably acrobatic…allowing [her] to shimmer and cascade flexibly down the cadenzas…. absolutely at one with the idiom… delivering beautifully characterised cameos’ - BBC Music Magazine (2025)

British-Spanish soprano Ana Beard Fernández was brought up in Manchester, beginning her musical training in Manchester Cathedral Choir and Chethams School of Music, and later the University of York and the Royal College of Music where she graduated from her Masters with Distinction. She lives in Madrid and enjoys an international career across oratorio, opera and chamber music.

Ana’s CD collaboration, HABANERA, with baritone Roderick Williams and SOMM Recordings of songs arranged for voice and cello ensemble, including Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 and Montsalvatge’s Cinco Canciones Negras, was released earlier this year. Also set for release in 2025, she sings Yerma on a recording of Paul Bowles’ incidental music to Lorca’s Yerma with the English Chamber Orchestra.

Ana’s operatic appearances include covering and performing ‘Micaëla’ in Bizet’s Carmen at Longborough Festival Opera, ‘Suzanne’ in a Royal Opera House/Linbury Theatre workshop of Traffick by Emma-Ruth Richards, ‘Dido’ and ‘Belinda/First Witch’ in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with groups including Ensemble O/Modernt in Stockholm, Sweden, ‘First Niece’ in Peter Grimes at St. Endellion Festival, ‘Margery’ in New Sussex Opera's critically-acclaimed tour of The Dragon of Wantley (Lampe), ‘Fiordiligi’ in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, and Handel’s Semele (chorus) at Opéra de Lille with Emmanuele Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée.

Recent appearances on the concert platform include Handel's Silete Venti at Southampton Guildhall, a Rameau and Charpentier double-bill with Laurence Cummings and Academy of Ancient Music, Elijah with the Crouch End Festival Chorus at Alexandra Palace, concerts with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and SWR Symphony orchestra in Berlin, Stuttgart and Freiburg, and Terry Riley’s Sun Rings at Kings Place.

Additional highlights include The Creation, and Haydn Concert Arias at The English Haydn Festival under the baton of Steven Devine and the English Haydn Orchestra, performances with I Fagiolini at venues including St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Stour Festival, and online at Voces 8 centre, Messiah at Sinfonia Smith Square with the Parliament choir and Southbank Sinfonia, Monteverdi with La Nuova Musica at the Wigmore Hall, Monteverdi Vespers at Huddersfield Town Hall and Cadogan Hall, alongside oratorio appearances with distinguished baroque ensembles Florilegium in Salisbury Catherdral, Barokksolistene in Norway, and the Hanover Band. She launched her baroque ensemble Ana y La Locura last summer at Festival de La Gente, HandelHendrix and St Clement Danes.

Ana is also an experienced contemporary music specialist, with performances spanning Risset Inharmonique, Ondřej Adámek's Karakuri - Poupée mécanique, Adams' Grand Pianola Music, and Traffick by Emma-Ruth Richards, presented at a workshop in the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio. Others include Unsuk Chin’s Akrostichon-Wortespiel, Judith Weir’s King Harald’s Saga, Tim Watt’s opera Kepler’s Trial at the V&A, Luca Francesconi’s Etymo, and Jonathan Dove’s Far Theatricals of the Day. She is proud to have commissioned and premiered works by many leading composers, placing a strong emphasis on creating new music.

Ana's teenage debut as ‘cante-jondo’ soloist in De Falla’s El Sombrero de Tres Picos with the Hallé at the Bridgewater Hall marked the beginning of her career. She is bilingual, thanks to her Galician mother and Derbyshire-born father. She studied at the University of York, where she was recipient of the Ed Burrell Award for Excellence in Performance, and completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music, where she graduated a Master of Performance (Opera) with Distinction.

She was previously in the professional quartet and co-Acting Director of Music at St Clement Danes church in central London and hosts a concert series there twice a month, celebrating up and coming talented musicians.

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