Ruth Holton

Ruth Holton (born 1961) is an English soprano singer.

Training Holton won a choral exhibition at Clare College, Cambridge and studied music there. Her later musical studies were with Elizabeth Lane, Nancy Long and Julie Kennard. She has also been recorded as a member of the Tallis Scholars.

Holton is a frequent singer of baroque music and has performed or recorded with such early music specialists as John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman and Gustav Leonhardt. Holton made her recording debut as a soloist in 1986 with Bach's St John Passion and between 2000 and 2001 took part in a project with Pieter Jan Leusink, the Netherlands Bach Collegium and the Holland Boys Choir to record all Bach's sacred cantatas as part of Brilliant Classics' complete Bach Edition. She participated in the project of Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir to record Bach's complete vocal works. She has also worked with the choir of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, where Bach was cantor, and took part in their televised performance of the Mass in B minor marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's death,