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Randall Scotting

The career of countertenor Randall Scotting has expanded beyond his native U.S. to major European houses. Scotting, who perhaps alone among important countertenors is a serious bodybuilder, has an unusually strong commitment to contemporary music. Scotting was born in Marshall, Minnesota, in 1978 but grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado. His father was a recreational vehicle dealer, and his mother was a bank human resources manager. Neither was artistically inclined, but when Randall took up dance at age nine and then cello three years later, his parents were supportive. At 16, he began voice lessons, starting as a baritone. After a stint as a tenor, he switched to countertenor at 19. Scotting attended Colorado State University, studying voice and cello, and then moved to Butler University in Indianapolis, receiving a bachelor's degree in voice. He enrolled at Southern Methodist University and then transferred to the Juilliard Artist Center in New York as a guest artist in 2005 and 2006. Scotting earned an Artist Diploma at the University of Colorado in 2008 and then spent several years in Budapest, studying Hungarian folk music and its influence. Scotting earned a PhD at the Royal College of Music in London in 2018, writing a doctoral thesis on the 18th century castrato Senesino and continuing to study voice with Sheri Greenawald, Éva Marton, and Gerald Martin Moore. He also had training at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, U.K., Ravinia's Steans Music Institute in Chicago, and the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall in New York. Scotting was heard in 2011 on a Hungaroton recording by the Savaria Baroque Orchestra of Antonio Caldara's Oratorio di Santo Stefano, Primo Re dell'Ungheria. By the time he completed his education, Scotting was already an experienced singer. He has appeared at major U.S. opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Boston Baroque, as well as abroad at the Bath International Music Festival and the Christchurch Arts Festival. Scotting has a large repertory of Baroque operatic roles by Handel and other composers. He also sings the countertenor roles in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Death in Venice. Scotting is a strong champion of contemporary music, singing works by modernist heavyweights such as John Cage, György Ligeti, and Luciano Berio, as well as by leading composers, including Caroline Shaw, Christopher Cerrone, and Philip Glass. He released his solo debut album, The Crown: Heroic Arias for Senesino, on the Signum Classics label in 2022, following that up a year later with the recital album Lovesick.
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