Mary Bevan, MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire).

The ballroom at D'Oyly Carte Island hosts Mary Bevan as the highlight and featured performer of the D'Oyly Carte Island Summer Soirees. 

In concert, Mary works regularly with the major orchestras and at the BBC Proms, and made her Carnegie Hall debut with the English Concert.

Bevan is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award and UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent in music. 

She was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2019 and made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2025.

In recent seasons, Mary has appeared with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Ballet & Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, English National Opera, Teatro La Fenice, Bolshoi Theatre, Opera de Monte Carlo, Royal Danish Opera and Teatro Real Madrid.