Soprano Elizabeth Watts won the 2007 Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition and the Outstanding Young Artist Award at the Cannes MIDEM Classique Awards as well as the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in February 2011.
She appears regularly on opera and concert stages across the United Kingdom and Europe, and has recorded for Sony Classical, Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi, Linn Records and Naxos. Watts was awarded an Hon DMus by Sheffield University in 2013 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 2017.