Electra Lochhead   

The young Scottish soprano, Electra Lochhead, is a versatile performer, renowned for her clear, lyrical voice and effervescent stage presence. Her passion for music of all kinds has led thus far to a career which encompasses music from the early Baroque through to experimental contemporary music.
 

Electra has enjoyed participating in a broad spectrum of professional engagements over the last 15 years. Personal highlights include appearances in 2017 as a guest soloist with the Munich Bach Choir in Müpa, Budapest, and in 2022 as a guest soloist with the CPE Bach Choir in the Elbphilharmonie. Other notable solo performances include Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Mass in B Minor, and St John Passion, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Die Schöpfung, Mendelssohn's Paulus and Elias, Mozart's Ch'io mi scordi di te? and Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Villa Lobos. In recent years she has been a regular guest soloist with the Bach Ensemble Edinburgh at the annual Edinburgh Festival, performing several of Bach's solo cantatas including Jauchzet Gott and Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten.

In 2016 she joined the ensemble BachWerkVokal in Salzburg, where she sings regularly as an ensemble member and soloist.  The ensemble's work focuses on combining the new and old in music, specialising in the works of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries and framing these works alongside newly comissioned compositions. This work in a small ensemble of 8 singers requires the performers to be outstanding not only as chamber musicians, but also as soloists, and to have the flexibility to switch from one to the other with ease.

At home on theatrical stages as well as in concert houses, Electra's opera performances include: Papagena in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Maria Maddalena in Handel’s La Resurrezione , the title roles in the world premieres of Andreas Bäuml’s Daphne’s Dream and Nils Urban Oestlund’s Pippi Langstrumpf , Ließchen in J.S. Bach's Kaffeekantate , Sarah in the digital opera  Tag 47  with the Kammeroper Salzburg, Zwei in the digital opera Im Westen nichts neues, im Süden aber auch nicht, Nina's Echo in the world premiere of Die Choreographie der Leichtigkeit by Seung Yon Kim, and Mirandolina in the world premiere of Erik Schroeder's La Locandiera.