- Catherine Bott
Catherine Bott (
September 11 ,1952 ) is an Englishsoprano and abaroque specialist.Following her studies at the
The King's High School For Girls ,fact|date=March 2008 andGuildhall School of Music and Drama , with Arthur Reckless, she began her career as a member of the English baroque-jazz crossover group, the Swingles. By 1980 she had begun appearing frequently in the New London Consort and thereafter began performing across the world inEurope ,Latin America and theUSSR with several other period-instrument groups. [ Freeman-Attwood, J: "Bott, Catherine", Grove Music Online, accessed April 16, 2006 ]She has recorded extensively, as Dido in Purcell's "
Dido and Aeneas " (withChristopher Hogwood and theAcademy of Ancient Music in 1994), with King's College, Cambridge Choir conducted byStephen Cleobury in Bach's "St. John Passion ", as Venus in Blow’s "Venus and Adonis" withPhilip Pickett and Monteverdi's "L'Incoronazione di Poppea " with Sir John Eliot Gardiner. She also vocalized on Trevor Jones's score for "The Dark Crystal ".Recently, and perhaps unexpectedly, Bott has been called in by conductors to perform and record much more recent repertoire, for example with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Fauré's "Requiem", Vaughan Williams' "
Sinfonia Antartica " and Nielsen’s Third Symphony with Bryden Thomson and the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra respectively. Likewise, she is much in demand among contemporary composers such asMichael Nyman andJonathan Dove .She is one of three presenters of "The Early Music Show" on
BBC Radio 3 (withAndrew Manze and Lucie Skeaping) on Saturdays and Sundays 13:00 - 14:00.Notes
External links
* [http://www.catherinebott.com/ Her personal website]
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