Luthien Brackett | Photo: Elizabeth Smith

Luthien Brackett

Born in San Diego, California, Luthien Brackett was named after a character in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. Praised by the press for her “lushness and delicacy,” and “silky tone among all registers,” she is in great demand as an alto soloist and professional chorister. 

Luthien can be heard in the role of Anima (“the soul”) in Seraphic Fire’s well-regarded recording of Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum, released in 2021. She appears regularly with some of the world’s preeminent professional vocal ensembles, including The Monteverdi Choir, with whom she performed Berlioz’s Les Troyens to sell out audiences at the Berlioz Festival, the Salzburg Festival, the Berlin Festival, and the BBC Proms last year. Her recent solo appearances include her debut with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem as the alto soloist for their recording of Felix Mendelssohn’s adaptation of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, which was listed as one of the best classical albums of 2024 (so far!) by the London Times. Among her numerous commercial recordings are six GRAMMY-nominated albums, including Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields with the Bang on a Can All-Stars (2015), It’s a Long Way with Skylark (2022), and Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil with The Clarion Society (2023). 

Luthien enjoys cooking, traveling, reading, binge-watching K-dramas, and practicing her French, German, and Korean on Duo Lingo. She lives in northwest London.

www.luthienbrackett.com