Reginald MOBLEY, Paris, 2021

Reginald MOBLEY, Paris, 2021
Photo by Richard Dumas
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Painted by Leslie Donahue (2023)
Reginal MOBLEY, Paris, 2021
Photo by Richard Dumas
Reginald MOBLEY, Paris, 2021
Photo by Richard Dumas
Reginald MOBLEY, Paris, 2021
Photo by Richard Dumas
Reginald MOBLEY, Paris, 2021
Photo by Richard Dumas
Reginald MOBLEY, Paris, 2021
Photo by Richard Dumas
PURCELL // ‘O solitude, my sweetest choice’ by Reginald Mobley, Brandon Acker and Douglas Balliett
‘Were You There?’ by Reginald Mobley and Baptiste Trotignon
Reginald Mobley on selecting the repertoire for new album, ‘Solitude’
Purcell – O Solitude | Early Music Vancouver
Blue Heron – Les desloyaulx ont la saison by Johannes Ockeghem
Handel – Piu non cura (Disinganno) – Il Trionfo del Tempo

“Curator, musical code-switcher, YouTube sensation: Reginald Mobley is a countertenor for our time”

Chicago Reader

“Crystalline diction and pure, evenly produced tone”

Miami Herald

“…but the voice that many in the audience left the hall raving about was that of countertenor Reginald Mobley, also pure of tone, immaculate in his articulation and with a personal approach to ornamentation that was never too much and always musical.”

The Herald

“Finishing with an additional Handel number – described by Mobley as “that musical invasive species” – the AAM (Ancient Academy of Music) elicited an audible sigh from the Stalls with “Yet can I hear that dulcet lay”, a showcase of Mobley’s range and tonal variety to bring to a close a diverse and thought-provoking journey through a mammoth canon, displaying huge talent as well as a love for all things Baroque.”

Bachtrack

“With Because, his first solo album, he offers a powerful portrait addressing the musical legacy of Black spirituals and the complicated paradoxes contained within them: themes of bondage and salvation, power and tenderness, pain and beauty, spirituality and temporality…We rarely hear a countertenor wade into this repertoire, and Mobley’s voice, which seems to get better by the year, is wonderfully pristine. Like good champagne, his tone is both effervescent and rich…he does not produce sound so much as spin it in long, sumptuous phrases.”

Early Music America

American countertenor Reginald Mobley is globally renowned for his purity of tone and deft interpretation of baroque, classical and modern repertoire, leading an award-winning career on both sides of the Atlantic. His debut solo album Because released in June 2023 on Alpha Classics earned raves reviews, winning both the Opus Klassik and the Edison Klassiek, while also garnering a GRAMMY® Award nomination. The Chicago Reader keenly heralded him as “Curator, musical code-switcher, YouTube sensation: Reginald Mobley is a countertenor for our time”

Highlights of his 2025/26 season include debuts with Grant Park Music Festival and newly minted Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and The Cleveland Orchestra with Osmo Vänska, performing Orff Carmina Burana. He returns to Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the same oratorio under the baton of Music Director Jader Bignamini which will be recorded on Pentatone. In December he performs Handel Messiah in his debut with Houston Symphony and long collaborator Patrick Dupré Quigley, Pittsburgh Symphony with Music Director Manfred Honeck, Ancient Academy of Music and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic both under the baton of Laurence Cummings, and then on tour with Bach Collegium Japan with the luminary Masaaki Suzuki. Additional performances of Bach Passions and Cantatas with Musica Angelica, Washington Bach Consort, Bach Collegium San Diego, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Dunedin Consort.

An advocate for diversity in music and its programming, Reginald became the first ever Programming Consultant for the Handel & Haydn Society following several years of leading H&H in its community engagement concerts entitled Every Voice. He holds the position of Visiting Artist for Diversity Outreach with Apollo’s Fire and has served as Artistic Advisor at the Portland Baroque Orchestra. Reginald is also leading a research project in the United Kingdom funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to uncover music by composers from diverse backgrounds, currently working on the music of Charles Ignatius Sancho.

SEPTEMBER 2025