Catherine Bott

about

Catherine Bott (September 11, 1952) is an English soprano and a baroque specialist. Following her studies at the The King's High School For Girls, and Guildhall 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 in Europe, Latin America and the USSR with several other period-instrument groups. She has recorded extensively, as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music in 1994), with King's College, Cambridge Choir conducted by Stephen Cleobury in Bach's St. John Passion, as Venus in Blow’s Venus and Adonis with Philip 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 as Michael Nyman and Jonathan Dove. She is one of three presenters of The Early Music Show on BBC Radio 3 (with Andrew Manze and Lucie Skeaping)

top songs

albums

The Pilgrimage to Santiago

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Sweeter Than Roses

Haydn - Ariannaa Naxos / Scots Songs / English Canzonettas

Mad Songs

Virtuoso Italian Vocal Music

Temenos

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Various: The World of Catherine Bott

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas

Convivencia

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Purcell: Dido Aeneas; The Indian Queen

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Shakespeare in Love

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas; The Indian Queen

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