Bio

Seattle-based Tenor Carson Truett Lott has appeared with Byrd Ensemble, Evergreen Ensemble, Harmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Music at Epiphany, 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, and the Seattle Opera Chorus, School Tour, and Creation Lab. 

In the 2026-27 season, Carson will make his Portland choral debut with Byrd Ensemble and The Tudor Choir, and will appear in Seattle with Evergreen Ensemble, Byrd Ensemble, The Tudor Choir, Emerald Ensemble, and the Seattle Opera Chorus throughout their seasons, and also with the St. James Cathedral Cantorei, Music at Epiphany, and the Seattle Bach Festival. Carson will also appear throughout 2026-27 in choral workshops and recording projects with the Seattle Opera Veteran's Choir, Byrd Ensemble, and independent composers.

 As a concert soloist, Carson’s repertoire includes Bach cantatas 61, 106, 111, and 140, SACRED PLACE (Berko), WINTER WORDS (Britten), MEMBRA JESU NOSTRI (Buxtehude), LE JALOUX (Clérambault), LET US GARLANDS BRING (Finzi), MESSIAH (Handel), REQUIEM (Howells), REQUIEM (Mozart), and DICHTERLIEBE (Schumann). Past roles in opera and oratorio 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), Pilate in PASSIO (Pärt), Monaca Seconda and Voce in LA BEATA IMELDE (Perti), the Rooster in RENARD (Stravinsky), and Frederic in a school version of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Sullivan). 

As a chorus member, Carson has performed numerous operas, concert masses and Bach cantatas, Christmas Oratorio I-III & Magnificat (Bach), Sacred Place (Berko), Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz), Membra Jesu Nostri (Buxtehude), Te Deum (Charpentier), the world premiere of The Passion of Yeshua (Danielpour), Messiah (Handel), Lilja (Hurum), the world premiere of To Look West (Koppin), The Little Match Girl Passion (Lang), Prophetiae Sibyllarum (Lassus), Elijah (Mendelssohn), Passio (Pärt), American Triptych (Runestad), Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Sheehan), A Sea Symphony (Vaughan Williams), Gloria (Vivaldi), and the Briggs, Duruflé, Fauré, Howells, 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 regular Seattle Opera Chorus, the choirs of Epiphany Parish where he works as a staff soloist and voice instructor, and many other local ensembles. Carson has worked as a Teaching Artist with the Seattle Opera School Tour and the Midsummer Musical Retreat, and teaches voice through ArtSmart, a nationwide organization bringing tuition-free music lessons to high schools across the US. 

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