LOUISE MOTT
Born in Hertfordshire, Louise Mott, mezzo, was awarded a Wolfson Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music. Designated a Recommended Artist of the NFMS, she also won the Madeline Finden Memorial Trust and the Audrey Strange Memorial Prize at the Royal Over Seas Music League Competition. She continued her studies at the National Opera Studio.
Operatic engagements have included Edith in Arne's Alfred, Agrippina , Ruggiero Alcina, Ariodante, Sesto Giulio Cesare , Orlando, Rosmira Partenope , Serse and Dido Dido and Aeneas for The Early Opera Company, Erika in Barber's Vanessa and Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia with The Other Theatre Company, God’s Liar (John Casken) and Marguerite Hey Persephone! (Deidre Gribbin) for Almeida Opera, Annio La clemenza di Tito for Welsh National Opera, Wife/Sphinx/Doreen Greek (Mark-Anthony Turnage) with the London Sinfonietta and Marlinchen The Juniper Tree (Watkins) at the Muffathalle, Munich.
Concert engagements have included her BBC Proms debut singing Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and performances with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the Hallé Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia and the Ulster Orchestra and appearances at major venues such as the Barbican Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, St John’s, Smith Square, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Wigmore Hall (with Graham Johnson), the Purcell Room, King’s College, Cambridge, York Minster and Westminster Abbey. She has broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and Classic fM and her recordings include Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust for Harmonia Mundi.
Louise Mott is currently singing Annina Der Rosenkavalier for Opera North. Her future engagements include Fidalma Il matrimonio segreto for Opera North, Ariodante with English Touring Opera, Mme Larina Eugene Onegin for Scottish Opera Go Round and Messiah with both the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia.
