Bio

Seattle-based Tenor Carson Truett Lott has appeared with Byrd Ensemble, Evergreen Ensemble, Harmonia Orchestra and Chorus, the Oregon Bach Festival Berwick Chorus, the Tacoma Bach Festival, the Musicking Conference, Premier Vocal Entertainment, a touring group of Boston Camerata members, Inland Northwest Opera, Cascadia Chamber Opera, Orpheus PDX, the Seattle Opera Chorus, and the Seattle Opera Creation Lab. 

In the 2024-2025 season, Carson will join the chorus with Evergreen Ensemble (Liturgy, Christmas), Music at Epiphany (Requiem: Duruflé and Howells), St. James Cantorei (Bruckner Bicentennial, Works by Joseph Haydn), Premier Vocal Entertainment (Holiday Harmony Carolers), Seattle Opera (Les Troyens, The Magic Flute, Tosca), the Tudor Choir (Pacific Northwest Ballet) and the inaugural Seattle Bach Festival (Celebratory Opening). 

 As a concert soloist, Carson’s repertoire includes Bach cantatas 106 and 140, Handel’s MESSIAH, Mozart’s REQUIEM, SACRED PLACE (Berko), WINTER WORDS (Britten), MEMBRA JESU NOSTRI (Buxtehude), LE JALOUX (Clérambault), LET US GARLANDS BRING (Finzi), COLLEGIUM REGALE (Howells), and DICHTERLIEBE (Schumann). Past roles include King Belshazzar in THE PLAY OF DANIEL, Paolino in IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO (Cimarosa), Arthur Owen in FREE MEN (Hastings), Ferdinand in CARMEN AND THE BULL (LaBarge), Pastore I in L’ORFEO (Monteverdi), Colton in BRADFORD FAMILY BAND (Oberhofer), Monaca Seconda and Voce in LA BEATA IMELDE (Perti), and the Rooster in RENARD (Stravinsky). 

As a chorus member, Carson has performed numerous concert masses and Bach cantatas, Magnificat (Bach), Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz), Membra Jesu Nostri (Buxtehude), Te Deum (Charpentier), the world premiere of The Passion of Yeshua (Danielpour), Orfeo ed Eurydice (Gluck), Messiah (Handel), Lilja (Hurum), The Little Match Girl Passion (Lang), Prophetiae Sibyllarum (Lassus), Elijah (Mendelssohn), L’Orfeo (Monteverdi), Tosca (Puccini), American Triptych (Runestad), A Sea Symphony (Vaughan Williams), Gloria (Vivaldi), and the Duruflé, Fauré, Mozart, and Verdi Requiems.

Carson holds music degrees from Seattle University and the University of Oregon, and can be heard singing regularly around Seattle with Evergreen Ensemble, the Compline Choir of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, the choirs of Epiphany Parish where he works as a staff soloist and voice instructor, and many other local ensembles. Carson also teaches voice through ArtSmart, a nationwide organization bringing tuition-free music lessons to communities across the US. 

Carson also operates as a freelance visual artist, specializing in hand-drawn fantasy cartography.