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One
of the most versatile singers before the public today, Catherine Bott studied
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
On graduating she was chosen by Ward Swingle to join his new British
group, with whom she sang everything from Bach to Berio and developed her gift
for improvisation and scat singing.
After two years she left to begin her solo career and has long been
recognised as a virtuoso of early music.
Among her numerous recordings in this field are Bach's St John Passion with the Choir of King's
College, Cambridge, Monterverdi's L'Incoronazione
di Poppaea with Sir John Elliot Gardiner, Purcell's Fairy Queen with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and title role in Dido and Aeneas with the Academy of
ancient Music. Her recital recordings
include virtuoso Italian arias, Mad Songs from the English Restoration Theatre
and arias by Barbara Strozzi. Decca
released The World of Catherine Bott
in September 2001. In
complete contrast, she is much in demand by contemporary composers, drawn to
the combination of purity and sensuality in her singing. She has premiered works by Jonathan Dove,
Joe Duddell and Francis Grier, and recorded works by Michael Torke, Michael
Nyman, Bo Holten and Nicholai Korndorf. |
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