Who is Beth Taylor?

Beth Taylor

Beth Taylor made her debut this season with the Opéra de Nancy singing the title role in La Cenerentola (Rossini). She has also sung Mahler’s Third Symphony with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Das von der Erde with the Orchestre de Chambre Paris, and in Alma Mahler’s Fünf Lieder with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

The Scottish mezzo-soprano made her Concertgebouw debut in 2019 in Mendelssohn’s oratorio Christus and Mozart’s Mass in C minor in a concert conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend. Taylor studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where her teachers included Jennifer Larmore.

In 2023 she was a finalist in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, and in 2019 she won third prize in the Wigmore Hall Competition. She gives s with leading pianists such as Julius Drake, Malcolm Martineau and Mathieu Pordoy.

This is her first appearance in the Recital Hall.