Gustav Mahler: Rueckertlieder

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Soloist: Alice Coote
Orchestra: Julius Drake, piano
Label: EMI Classics
Cat. No.: 7243 5 85559 2 9

excerpt from 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' - by kind permission of EMI Classics

Alice Coote studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio. She gratefully acknowledges the support of the Peter Moores Foundation. She has been awarded the Brigitte Fassbaender Award for Lieder Interpretation and the Decca Kathleen Ferrier Prize.

In concert, she has performed with the LPO, Hallé, OAE, RLPO, RPO, Philharmonia, Concertgebouw, Rotterdam and New York Philharmonic Orchestras under conductors including Nagano, Pešek, Menuhin, Boulez, Elder, Salonen, Gergiev,Bĕlohlávek, Dohnanyi, Christie, McGegan, Haïm, Herreweghe, Hickox in London, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Brussels, Madrid, New York and Salzburg. In 2001, she made her debut at the BBC ‘Last Night of the PROMS’.

In recital, Alice Coote and Julius Drake are in demand throughout Europe and the US. At the BBC Chamber Proms 2003 they performed the world premiere of Judith Weir’s song cycle ‘The Voice of Desire’ written especially for them. They gave a repeat performance of this piece at the 2007 PROMS. They also regularly appear at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and at New York’s Lincoln Centre.

Alice’s recordings have included Walton’s Gloria (Chandos), The Choice of Hercules (Hyperion), Orfeo (Virgin Classics) , The Dream of Gerontius (Halle Label) and a highly acclaimed recital disc of Schumann and Mahler for EMI with Julius Drake. A recording of Mahler's Second Symphony for EMI Virgin, with Natalie Dessay and Paavo Jaervi, is due to be released in spring 2010.

Her operatic roles include Gluck's Orfeo, Ariodante, Sesto/Tito, Sesto/Cesare, Ruggiero, Composer, Poppea, Penelope, Dorabella, Cherubino, Lucretia, Hansel,Orlando, Orlowsky,Oktavian, Idamante, Nerone and Carmen for opera companies including ROH Covent Garden, ENO, Glyndebourne, Opera North, WNO, Scottish Opera, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Paris, Nancy, Nantes, the MET, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and the Salzburg Festival. More recently, she gave role debuts as Maffio Orsini/Lucrezia Borgia in Munich and as Charlotte/Werther in Frankfurt and appeared as Hansel at the MET and at the ROH Covent Garden.

Upcoming opera engagements include Marguerite/Damnation de Faust in Frankfurt, Composer/Ariadne auf Naxos in Munich and on tour in Japan, Hansel/Hänsel und Gretel at Glyndebourne and at the MET.

Date Last Edited: 26th March 2010