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Beth Taylor

About this Artist

Lauded by The Guardian for her “dark and focused” voice, “sensational coloratura,” and “spectacular singing” and by The Times of London for her “fierce, indeed terrifying, cane-swishing” characterizations, Beth Taylor is one of today’s most electrifying young mezzo-sopranos.

Taylor begins her 2025/26 season singing the title role in the final scene of Rossini’s Ermione with the Monteverdi Choir at London’s Cadogan Hall. She then joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in Los Angeles and on tour. She returns to the US for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under Raphaël Pichon and performs the work with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Further highlights include her return to the Berlin Philharmonic for Bach’s Mass in B minor and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Kirill Petrenko and a performance of Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Taylor also appears with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Second Symphony under Sir Simon Rattle, the Munich Philharmonic for Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, and the Munich Radio Orchestra in Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man. At Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, she sings The Dream of Gerontius with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and Ivor Bolton. With pianist Hamish Brown, she sings a recital at Wigmore Hall.

In addition to her concert work, Taylor appears as Speranza in a staged performance of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in Bilbao and tours as Cornelia in Handel’s Giulio Cesare with Il Pomo d’Oro to Vienna, Budapest, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Warsaw, and Essen.

Beth Taylor is a grand finalist of the 2023 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, the winner of the 2022 Elizabeth Connell Award, third-prize winner of the 2019 Wigmore Hall Competition, and the winner of the 2018 Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award. She is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and The Open University.