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 I Fagiolini’s recent recordings of two of Orazio Benevoli’s four-choir masses, the first of which, Missa Tu Es Petrus, was recognized as BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Month. She appears regularly with some of the world’s preeminent professional vocal ensembles, including The Monteverdi Choir, with whom she made her Bachfest premiere in Leipzig, Germany, in June of 2024, performing to two sell-out audiences. In April, she made her solo debut with the Bach Society of St. Louis, performing the Mass in B Minor. In October, she will join acclaimed British choir Polyphony in a multi-city US tour. 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.