Alex Potter

Alex Potter

Countertenor

Alex Potter is managed worldwide by Rozemarijn Tiben and Fernando de Testa.

Contact:
Artist Manager
E: rozemarijn.tiben@interartists.nl
T: +31 6 34 272 282

Assistant Artist Manager
E: fernando.detesta@interartists.nl
T: +33 7 48 25 93 63

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Praised by The Times for his “ethereal tone and beautiful control”, Alex Potter is one of the leading countertenors on the European musical scene. 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. He performs performs with prominent conductors including Philippe Herreweghe, Hans Christoph Rademann, John Butt, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Jordi Savall, Jos van Veldhoven, and Stephen Layton.

Recent performances of note include Bach’s B-Minor Mass with the Concertgebouw Orchestra/Philippe Herreweghe, concerts and a recording of works for solo countertenor by Vivaldi, Lotti and Caldara with the orchestra La Festa Musicale, a performance of works by Bach and Telemann with Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen at the Wigmore Hall, and Benjamin Britten’s Abraham and Isaac with the tenor Thomas Hobbs in Vancouver, Canada. Most recently, together with Soprano Marta Mathéu and the orchestra Vespres d’Arnadí, he performed Handel - friends and foes at the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, based on his own programme-concept of works by Handel and lesser-known contemporaries.

Alex Potter has a large discography with numerous ensembles and several solo recordings. Amongst others, he appears as on the recently released recording of Bach Cantatas with Philippe Herreweghe/Collegium Vocale Gent. A new disc with two of Bach’s solo-cantatas with Il Gardellino has just been released on the Pasacaille label.

After beginning his musical career as a chorister at Southwark Cathedral, Alex Potter was a Choral Scholar and read Music at New College, Oxford. He then went on to pursue further study in singing and baroque performance practice at the Schola Cantorum in Basel with Gerd Türk, taking additional classes with Evelyn Tubb.

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“The lion’s share was for Alex Potter, for the quantity and quality of his interventions, in particular the arias Bereite dich, Zion, mit zärtlichen Trieben and Schlafe, mein Liebster, geniesse der Ruh, which he performed with exceptional taste and delicacy.”

— Scherzo magazine

“The tender and saving conclusion was a catharsis, preceded by a moving solo by Alex Potter, which became the revelation of the evening. The countertenor skilfully blended fragility, lucidity and emotional intelligence.”

— Bachtrack

“Of the five vocal soloists, countertenor Alex Potter brought his emotions to the fore most strongly with his warm, seductive tone in both Qui sedes and Agnus Dei.”

— Bachtrack

“It is with the Salvator Mundi, salva nos, that we have the opportunity to appreciate the superb voice of Alex Potter, alto. Full and warm, very lively in the ensembles, his voice becomes smooth and warm in his solo interventions, easily filling the nave of the building. A pleasure of interpretation and phrasing, giving the ensembles a very Gothic élan and depth.”

— Bachtrack

“In a highly inspired and engaged performance, the countertenor Alex Potter with his alto tessitura commands the soul to be joyful through this valley of pain, leading to Paradise.”

— Olyrix

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