Ballet Nights
Ballet Nights - London - On the 5th June the final solo from ‘Five Rückert Songs’ will be performed again at the Cadogan Hall in London. Eve Mutso will be joined by Soprano Hannah Dienes-Williams with Viktor Emanuel on the piano.
Eve is a freelance dancer & choreographer and former Principal Dancer of Scottish Ballet, Scotland’s national dance company.
Her repertory with Scottish Ballet included roles in the works of Ashton, Arias, Balanchine, Brew, Bruce, Caniparoli, Darrell, Elo, De Frutos, Forsythe, Hampson, Lawrance, Looesmore, MacMillan, Van Manen, Page, Pastor, Petronio and Pickett. In 2012 she created the leading role of Blanche in Meckler/Lopez Ochoa’s A Streetcar Named Desire.
Eve was born in Tallinn, Estonia and graduated from Tallinn Ballet School in 1999, going on to join Estonian National Ballet. She returned to Tallinn in 2011 as Guest Principal to dance the title role in MacMillan’s Manon. Eve is regular guest artist for Ballet Nights Gala performances in London and Glasgow, UK.
In 2015 she was nominated by the Critics Circle for the National Dance Award for Outstanding Female Performance (Classical). She had previously been nominated for Best Female Dancer in 2005 and 2013. In 2025, she received together with Tuuli Potik Salme Reek’s Children’s Production Award for creating the “Ballet Story - Sensory Friendly Relaxed Performance” for children with autism or intellectual disability.
Her first choreographic work was elEven, performed as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme in 2014 and since then she has continued to create further works performed by herself and other dancers.
Eve’s interests have led to various collaborations with musicians, poets, sculptors, scenographers, animators, filmmakers, composers, photographers and multidisciplinary artists worldwide. In 2018 she danced with Scottish Opera in their new production of Eugene Onegin, touring UK. Her interest in aerial arts resulted in the creation of aerial solo loop, commissioned by The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 2018.
In 2018 Eve was commissioned by Estonian National Ballet to create Echo and in 2019 she choreographed Flock for Lothian Youth Dance Company. Her work,111 a collaboration with Joel Brown (Candoco Dance Company) premiered at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2019 and was part of the Made in Scotland showcase, followed by a national and international tour alongside Unlimited Festival at the Southbank Centre, UK and HAY Festival Digital Arequipa, Peru.
She recently collaborated with artist/poet Rhona Warwick Paterson on several new commissioned works for the Fruitmarket in Edinburgh and created a new work ENTWINED for Indepen-dance national and international touring.
Eve has created choreography, workshops and taught inclusive classes for Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, MUBA (The Tallinn Music and Ballet School), Estonian Dance Academy, LPM Dance Theatre, Artists for Africa, AXIS Dance Company, Edinburgh Dance Academy, Alonzo King LINES Dance Center, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Lothian Youth Dance Company, Aerial Edge Circus School, Indepen-dance, Seres Arte Inclusivo, Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Ballet Summer Workshops Estonia, Estonian National Ballet and Scottish Ballet. Eve has consulted theatre makers for dance composition at New Voices Theatre and is mentoring independent freelance dance makers worldwide.
Eve has worked as a guest lecturer at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Baltic Film, Media and Arts School & at MUBA (The Tallinn Music and Ballet School) and has been invited to create choreography/movement direction for numerous productions at Tallinn City Theatre, Estonian Drama Theatre, Estonian National Opera and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Eve is 300hr Yoga Alliance certified Yin Yoga & Vinyasa Yoga instructor. She has been a board member of Indepen-dance, an inclusive dance company for disabled and non-disabled people in Scotland since 2017.
Hannah has been described as a ‘rising star of modernist music’, whilst continuing to perform a diverse repertoire. She studies with Alex Ashworth and Anna Tilbrook at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is a member of the Academy Song Circle and supported by the Josephine Baker Trust. She also receives private coaching from Barbara Hannigan and Hilary Summers. Before this, Hannah studied Music at Clare College Cambridge, where she graduated with a First and the Lester Brough Prize for Music.
Recent performances include performing Brett Dean’s ‘Wolf Lieder’ alongside Riot Ensemble conducted by the composer, Pierrot Lunaire for Royal Academy, directing and performing Maxwell-Davies’ one-woman opera ‘Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot’, and a tour of Nono and Scarlatti with the Façade Ensemble.
Future solo engagements including Mahler’s ‘Rückert-Lieder’ in Cadogan Hall, contemporary programmes at Southbank Centre with The Carice Singers and work in Norway with Edward Grieg Kor. She has also sung for EXAUDI and Voces8 Foundation Choir, having been a choral scholar in Clare College Choir and Head Chorister at Guildford Cathedral, where she sang as a soloist on multiple recordings.
At Cambridge, she received art song coaching from Joseph Middleton as a Pembroke Lieder Scholar, sung multiple principal roles in opera productions, and won the Clare College Concerto Competition. While at Cambridge, Hannah sang many full opera roles, including Susanna in Le Nozze Di Figaro (Trinity College Music Society), Adele in Die Fledermaus (Cambridge University Opera Society), Pamina in The Magic Flute (CUOS), Soprano in Venables’ Denis and Katya (CUOS), Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Clare College Music Society) and Mrs P in Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (CCMS).
In song, Hannah was awarded second prize in the Clare College Song Competition and was a Pembroke Lieder Scholar, receiving regular coaching with Joseph Middleton. In 2023, she was selected to perform Messiaen’s Harawi in Paris to leading critics and biographers of Messiaen. Since starting at RAM, Hannah has been Highly Commended in the Flora Nielsen Prize, a finalist in the Delius Prize; she has benefitted from coaching with Barbara Hannigan, Tamara Stefanovich, a masterclass with Jennifer France and on the Glyndebourne Opera Lab.
You can book your tickets for the Cadogan Hall performance here: 5th June Cadogan Hall, London
Also Ballet Nights has its first gala performance in Glasgow at the Theatre Royal on the 4th July - more details to follow on this but booking has already opened so don’t miss out: 4th July Ballet Nights Glasgow
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