Sara Mohr-Pietsch
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch (born 1980) is a British music broadcaster who works principally for BBC Radio 3.
Contents
1 Early life and education
2 Career
3 Voice
4 Charity work
5 References
6 External links
Early life and education[edit]
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[edit]
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.[citation needed]
Voice[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
^ "Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall". BBC. Retrieved 2016-05-28..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ Mohr-Pietsch, Sara (Spring 2009). "London through Music". New Books in German (25). Retrieved 2018-01-12.
^ "Music". Newnham College. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
^ "About the Choir - Selwyn College". Selwyn College. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
^ ab "The Choir - Sara Mohr-Pietsch - BBC Radio 3". BBC. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
^ Donovan, Paul (2008-04-13). "The life and jail times of a radio presenter". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2016-04-18. (Subscription required (help)).
^ 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.
^ Henderson, Michael (14 September 2007). "The English are losing their voice".
^ "Who has the nation's favourite radio voice?". Radio Times. 2 March 2016.
^ 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.
External links[edit]
mohrpietsch.com Official website
Categories:
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- BBC Radio 3 presenters
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