Ruth Holton    Soprano

Ruth Holton read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where she was a choral exhibitioner. She made her first solo recording in Bach's St John Passion for Deutsche Grammophon under Sir John Eliot Gardiner and rapidly became well known for her performances of the Baroque and Classical repertoire. Ruth's discography includes Carissimi's Jephtha, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Bach cantatas with Gardiner and Ton Koopman, Mozart's Salzburg Masses, Handel's Messiah, Schütz's Christmas Story, Haydn's Nelson Mass, Handel's Susanna and Bach's B minor Mass. During the years 2000 and 2001 she completed a project to record all the sacred cantatas by Bach with the Holland Boys Choir.

Ruth is a regular performer at several European festivals, including Flanders, Aldeburgh, Greenwich, The Three Choirs Festival and the Bachfest in Leipzig. She has performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Gustav Leonhardt in Rome and Vienna, and with Fretwork in Finland and Germany. She has had a long association with the choir of St Thomas’s Leipzig in Bach's own church, and she performed his Mass in B minor in the Bachfest 2000, which was televised in Europe and Japan to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. She returns to Leipzig in 2007 to sing Bach’s Johannes Passion.