Alex Potter

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Biography

Praised by "The Times" for his “ethereal tone and beautiful control”, Alex Potter is one of the leading countertenors on the European musical scene and a sought-after interpreter of 17th and 18th century music, whose engagements have taken him to stages all over Europe and to festivals such as the Prague Spring, the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, the Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra or the Feldkirch Festival.
He performs with prominent conductors including Philippe Herreweghe, Hans Christoph Rademann, John Butt, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Jordi Savall, Jos van Veldhoven, and Stephen Layton. Alongside numerous performances of works by Bach, Handel and other established composers, he takes particular interest in seeking out and singing lesser known repertoire in concerts and recordings under his own direction.
After beginning his musical career as a chorister at Southwark Cathedral, Alex Potter was a Choral Scholar and read Music at New College, Oxford. At the same time he completed a degree in musicology. He then went on to pursue further study in singing and baroque performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel with Gerd Türk, taking additional classes with Evelyn Tubb.