About this Artist

BRUCE LAMOTT has been Director of the Philharmonia Chorale since 1997 and also serves as PBO’s Scholar-in-Residence. He first performed with the Orchestra in 1989 as continuo harpsichordist for Handel’s Giustino. In his 30-year tenure with the Carmel Bach Festival, he served as a harpsichordist, lecturer, choral director, and conductor of the Mission Candlelight Concerts. As the founding director of the Sacramento Symphony Chorus, he conducted annual choral concerts of major symphonic choral works and prepared the Symphony Chorus for their subscription seasons. 

Lamott received a bachelor’s degree from Lewis and Clark College, and an MA and PhD in musicology from Stanford. His teaching career began on the musicology faculty at UC Davis, where he directed the Early Music Ensemble. He recently retired from San Francisco University High School, where he has directed the choir and orchestra and taught Western Civilization for 36 years. As a professor of music history at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 2001, Dr. Lamott specializes in the vocal and instrumental repertoire of the 18th century. He teaches continuo-playing for the coach-accompanists in the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program and lectures for the Opera and Opera Guild’s education programs.