Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch (born 1980) is a British music broadcaster who works principally for BBC Radio 3.

Early life and education

Mohr-Pietsch was born in London to a mother of Polish and a father of German descent.[1] She sang in her school's choral society and took the role of Aeneas in a school production of Dido and Aeneas.[2] After school, she studied music at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1998–2001, where she was the first ever Newnham Choral Scholar in Selwyn College's Chapel Choir.[3][4] After gaining a first class degree, she studied for an MA at the University of Edinburgh, subsequently becoming a tutor, a post she retained until 2006.

Career

While based in Edinburgh, Mohr-Pietsch embarked on a career in arts administration and began to broadcast on Radio 3, winning a BBC talent contest in 2004.

After moving back to London her involvement with the network became more extensive. She became a regular presenter of the network’s Breakfast programme in 2007.[5] Her fortnightly stretches alternated with those of Petroc Trelawny; previously Rob Cowan was the other regular presenter. In addition, she presents (with others) the contemporary music programme Hear and Now.[5] Mohr-Pietsch began to present The Proms in 2008 on Radio 3,[6] and on television for the BBC. At the beginning of December 2013, Clemency Burton-Hill replaced her on Breakfast.[7]

She regularly presents Radio 3's "The Choir", and the Discovering Music series, particularly in programmes on Bach, whom she greatly admires and has studied extensively; early music is another interest. She is also a singer and pianist and plays the viola da gamba – "incredibly badly" in her own words.

Voice

Writing in The Telegraph in 2007, Michael Henderson found it "inconceivable that Sarah Mohr-Pietsch, with her dropped aitches and glottal stops, would have been let loose on [Radio 3] even 10 years ago."[8] In 2016, the Radio Times described her as having "one of Radio 3’s most reassuring voices. Such clarity, such warmth."[9]

Charity work

In support of Red Nose Day 2013, Mohr-Pietsch set herself the challenge of learning eight notes on the cello in seven days, as part of a comic rendition of Pachelbel's Canon.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall". BBC. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
  2. ↑ Mohr-Pietsch, Sara (Spring 2009). "London through Music". New Books in German (25). Retrieved 2018-01-12.
  3. ↑ "Music". Newnham College. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  4. ↑ "About the Choir - Selwyn College". Selwyn College. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  5. 1 2 "The Choir - Sara Mohr-Pietsch - BBC Radio 3". BBC. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  6. ↑ Donovan, Paul (2008-04-13). "The life and jail times of a radio presenter". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2016-04-18. (Subscription required (help)).
  7. ↑ Sweney, Mark (2013-10-31). "Radio 3 breakfast show to be presented by Clemency Burton-Hill". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  8. ↑ Henderson, Michael (14 September 2007). "The English are losing their voice".
  9. ↑ "Who has the nation's favourite radio voice?". Radio Times. 2 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Tilden, Imogen (2013-03-14). "Baroque silliness as Radio 3 presenters put their red noses on". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.