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Catherine Bott (born 11 September 1952) is a British singer and broadcaster.
Following her studies at The King's High School For Girls [1] and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, [2] with Arthur Reckless, she began her career as a member of Swingle II, successors to the baroque-jazz crossover group The Swingle Singers. After two years she left to begin a solo career, specialising at first in medieval, renaissance and baroque music. [3]
She recorded extensively, for example as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music in 1992), with the choir of King's College, Cambridge conducted by Stephen Cleobury in Bach's St. John Passion , as Venus in John Blow's Venus and Adonis with Philip Pickett, and in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Sir John Eliot Gardiner. She also enjoyed a sideline as a studio singer, much in demand to record solos on soundtracks for George Fenton, Trevor Jones and Craig Armstrong, among others. She was the singing voice of Elizabeth Bennet in BBC TV's much-admired 1995 production of "Pride and Prejudice", as Colin Firth's Mr Darcy looked on.
Bott performed and recorded more recent repertoire, for example with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Fauré's Requiem , Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica , Nielsen's Symphony No. 3 with Bryden Thomson and the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra respectively. She performed and recorded new works by Michael Nyman, Jonathan Dove, Michael Torke and Errollyn Wallen. [ citation needed ]
With Lucie Skeaping, Bott presented The Early Music Show on BBC Radio 3 [4] [5] 2003-2013, also presenting many Promenade concerts, evening concerts, documentaries and features. In October 2013, Bott joined Classic FM to present a three-year project covering the entire history of classical music. [6] She was a regular presenter of The Full Works Concert 2014-2020, and a Sunday afternoon programme until the end of June 2023. She now introduces livestreamed concerts for Wigmore Hall and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. [7]
Catherine Bott is a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Her footballing skills, however, are negligible.
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of 2000, performing Bach's church cantatas in liturgical order in churches all over Europe, and New York City, with the Monteverdi Choir, and recording them at the locations.
Carolyn Watkinson is an English mezzo-soprano, specialising in baroque music. Her voice is alternately characterized as mezzo-soprano and contralto.
Christine Croshaw is a British pianist and a professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, England.
Lynne Dawson is an English soprano. She came to great prominence through her performance as a soloist in Libera me from Verdi's Requiem with the BBC Singers at Princess Diana's funeral in September 1997. Lynne Dawson has recorded over seventy-five CDs and has a varied concert and operatic repertoire.
Alison Louise Balsom, Lady Mendes, is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, and music educator. Balsom was awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and three German Echo Awards, and was a soloist at the BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2009. She was the artistic director of the 2019 Cheltenham Music Festival.
Jennifer Elizabeth Pike is a British violinist.
Daniel John Taylor, is a Canadian countertenor, conductor and early music specialist. He is one of Canada's most celebrated cultural ambassadors, known for his warmth and humour and a voice that draws global applause. Taylor directs the Trinity Choir, the Theatre of Early Music and is Professor of Opera, Voice and Early Music at the University of Toronto.
Matthew King is a British composer, pianist, and educator. His works include opera, piano and chamber music, and choral and orchestral pieces. He has been described by Judith Weir, Master of the Queen’s Music, as “one of Britain's most adventurous composers, utterly skilled, imaginative, and resourceful."
Philip Turbett is a British bassoonist and clarinettist also specialising in historically informed performance.
Peter Bassano is an English conductor.
Jennifer Johnston is an English operatic mezzo-soprano. Born in Liverpool, she studied law at the University of Cambridge and worked in London chambers as a barrister before studying opera at the Royal College of Music (RCM). She is universally known as the 'Scouse Diva'.
Alexander Walker is a British conductor.
Stephen McNeff is an Irish composer, best known for his work in contemporary theatre and opera.
Sam Hayden is an English composer of classical and electronic music and an academic. His music has won several prestigious prizes and been performed widely at international music festivals.
Wilke te Brummelstroete is a Dutch mezzo-soprano. She has recorded Bach cantatas with John Eliot Gardiner and appeared as the valkyrie Siegrune in Wagner's Die Walküre at the Bayreuth Festival.
Alexandra Ioana Dariescu is a Romanian British classical concert pianist, educator, mentor and producer. She is best known for her multimedia project The Nutcracker and I and her focus on promoting the works of female composers.
Christian Curnyn is a British conductor, harpsichordist and baroque music specialist.
Ann Mackay is an English soprano.
Joglaresa is a London-based medieval and folk band, known for their scholarly and imaginative re-creation of medieval music. Founded in 1992 by director Belinda Sykes, their music spans a range of European, Middle Eastern and North African medieval and folk genres, drawing especially on Arabic, Sephardic and Andalusian traditions. They are also notable for their innovative programming and use of improvisation.
Benjamin Appl is a German-British lyric baritone, a classical singer who has appeared world-wide in opera houses and concert halls, particularly known as a Lieder singer.
