J S Bach B minor Mass Wells Cathedral Saturday, 10th November 2007

Louise Mott  (alto)

LOUISE MOTT studied at the Royal College of Music, where she won the Lies Askonas Competition, before completing her training at the National Opera Studio.
Louise made her débuts at English National Opera as Bradamante Alcina, Welsh National Opera as Annio La clemenza di Tito and Opera North as Annina Der Rosenkavalier, followed by Fidalma Il matrimonio segreto. She returned to Opera North to sing La Duenna in Der Rosenkavalier and she sang Ariodante for English Touring Opera and Mme Larina Eugene Onegin for Scottish Opera on Tour. For the Early Opera Company she has sung Edith Alfred (Thomas Arne), Agrippina, Ruggiero Alcina, Ariodante, Sesto Giulio Cesare, Orlando, Rosmira Partenope, Melissa Amadigi, Serse and Dido Dido and Aeneas. Contemporary opera performances include Ion (Param Vir), God’s Liar (John Casken) and Marguerite Hey Persephone! (Deidre Gribbin) for Almeida Opera, Marlinchen The Juniper Tree (Roderick Watkins) at the Muffathalle, Munich, Emerald Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (Holloway) and Blind Mary The Martyrdom of St Magnus for the The Opera Group and in Oslo at the Oslo Kammermusik Festival, Wife/Sphinx/Doreen Greek (Mark-Anthony Turnage) with the London Sinfonietta and Penelope Linen from Smyrna (Edward Rushton) for The Opera Group. Forthcoming engagements include A Shetland Odyssey for Tête à Tête. Louise made her BBC Proms début in Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music. She has sung with the Northern Sinfonia, Hallé Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Hebrides Ensemble in such distinguished venues as the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican, St John’s Smith Square, St Paul’s Cathedral, Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, King’s College Cambridge, York Minster and Westminster Abbey. In 2006 she makes her début with The Philharmonia. Her concert repertoire includes most of the standard works and such specialities as Kindertotenlieder, The Sybil of Cumae and Turnage Twice Through the Heart. She has broadcast for BBC Radio 3, and throughout Europe. Her recordings include Marthe/Schuld/Maria Aegyptica in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust under Philippe Herreweghe for Harmonia Mundi.
Among Louise’s most recent engagements have been roles in A Shetland Odyssey and Push for Tête à Tête, for the latter of which she received the following reviews: “…a woman meditated on an impending stillbirth, beautifully sung by Louise Mott.” – Robert Maycock The Independent; “Louise Mott is outstanding as Angela, whose baby is still-born.” - Nick Kimberley The Evening Standard.
Forthcoming engagements include Second Lady The Magic Flute and the role of Cordula Wagner The Shops (Edward Rushton) for The Opera Group at Bregenz Festival and in the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House.