After two years she left to begin a solo career, specialising at first in medieval, renaissance and baroque music.
She also enjoyed a sideline as a studio singer, much in demand to record solos on soundtracks for George Fenton, Trevor Jones and Craig Armstrong, among others.
She was the singing voice of Elizabeth Bennet in BBC TV's much-admired 1995 production of "Pride and Prejudice", as Colin Firth's Mr Darcy looked on.
Bott performed and recorded more recent repertoire, for example with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Fauré's Requiem, Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica, Nielsen's Symphony No.
[6] She was a regular presenter of The Full Works Concert 2014-2020, and a Sunday afternoon programme until the end of June 2023.