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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Next gig is in London this Thursday! Messiaen’s HARAWI with Jo Havlat, in preparation for our performance at NNF next month. 6.30pm at Jo’s series at the gorgeous St Jude’s Balham. Tix are pay what u want at the door!

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

2 days left to listen to this 👇🏼

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Tonight at Ludlow English Song Weekend— a cornucopia of glorious English songs for mezzo, viola and piano (and combinations thereof) with Brett and Iain Burnside. Always a joy to share the stage with my dad, and this evening will be a special one! facebook.com/events/s/buz...

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Buzz! - Lotte Betts-Dean, Brett Dean & Iain Burnside

Music event in Ludlow, United Kingdom by Ludlow English Song Weekend on Saturday, April 12 2025

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Introducing…. • everything you’ve ever lived • SO excited to share the cover + title of my next album with @delphianrecords.com, a duo disc with Dimitris Soukaras - coming this September! Art by my brilliant mother Heather Betts, photo by Nik Matiushev, design by Delphian’s Will Coates-Gibson ✨

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Askonas Holt @askonasholt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

@lottebettsdean.bsky.social debuts at New Music Dublin performing the world premiere of Donnacha Dennehy's Agency. Full details here: buff.ly/uOpk4rJ

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Askonas Holt @askonasholt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Tonight sees @lottebettsdean.bsky.social debut with the London Sinfonietta performing Berio's Folk Songs. Full details here: buff.ly/Jn5WwV9

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Lovely review in Gramophone of James Way’s Britten Canticles album on @delphianrecords.com - “…Way’s partnership with the eloquent Australian mezzo-soprano effortlessly generates a keen dramatic instinct… this issue should not be missed.” www.gramophone.co.uk/reviews/revi...

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BRITTEN Canticles RAINIER Cycle for Declamation

Here’s a classy new rendering of Britten’s...

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It was lovely to record another ep of Radio 3’s This Classical Life, broadcast last Saturday. You can listen to it for another 24 days here👇🏼or via @bbcsounds.bsky.social. I brought some Donnacha Dennehy, Cassandra Miller, Caetano Veloso & The Supremes covering Joni. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - This Classical Life, Jess Gillam with....Lotte Betts-Dean

Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with vocalist Lotte Betts-Dean

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Delphian Records @delphianrecords.com · 20/03/2025

A joyful and uplifting chat about what makes music great, and what it's like to set up camp in the spaces between genres 🎪 @lottebettsdean.bsky.social chats to Jess Gillam in This Classical Life, featuring @stuartmacrae.bsky.social (and some cracking Telemann, too) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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This Classical Life - Jess Gillam with....Lotte Betts-Dean - BBC Sounds

Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with vocalist Lotte Betts-Dean

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Totally beside myself to be returning to Bayerische Staatsoper next season for something v special (and personal!) — Brett Dean’s third opera, Of One Blood🩸 Libretto by Heather Betts (!), Claus Guth directs, Jurowski conducts. May 10-25 and June 27/29. www.staatsoper.de/en/productio...

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Of One Blood

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nonclassical @nonclsscl.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

this thursday // arias reimagined ✨ experience reimagined handel arias through live electronics and bold new interpretations. ft. @lottebettsdean.bsky.social + Xiaowen Shang, Lore Lixenberg + Lore Amenabar Larrañaga, and Bianca Scout 💥 20 march at stone nest 👉 www.stonenest.org/events/noncl...

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Coming to Cambridge Festival with Marsyas Trio and a brand new Ewan Campbell cycle next Weds Eve, with a pre-concert talk about the process of translation between languages, cultures and artforms. www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/trans...

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Translations of the Night: a concert and pre-concert talk

Maurice Ravel’s Chansons madécasses of 1925 set poetry from 1878 by the French poet Évariste de Parny. Ravel’s setting was controversial at the time due to the anti-colonial central poem Aoua! and

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Hi from gorgeous sunny Amsterdam! Tonight at Hear And Now Festival I’ll be singing 2 works w strings from my @stuartmacrae.bsky.social album + Andriessen’s ‘Een Lied van der Zee’ for solo voice. Vasks, Crumb + Strauss complete the gig. 8pm Vondelkerk www.ticketkantoor.nl/shop/HearAnd...

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HearAndNow Kamermuziekfestival 2025

Bestel kaarten voor HearAndNow Kamermuziekfestival 2025 Koop nu je tickets!

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A big joy to share the stage with two of my favourite musicians last night, Brett Dean aka Dad and Julius Drake 💛 thanks to Shelley and Peter for having us at their gorgeous house concert series in Devon, and to Dora the fox red lab for the cuddles. More from this trio soon!

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This Saturday at Leeds Uni with Marsyas Trio - Finnissy, Ravel, Weir and a Ewan Campbell premiere! concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/marsy...

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Marsyas Trio with Lotte Betts-Dean | University of Leeds International Concert Series

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Back home and straight into it with a visit to the House of Lords yesterday courtesy of ENO, to celebrate the one and only Thea Musgrave. A huge honour to meet her and sing her flute-voice duo ‘Primavera’ for her, and for many wonderful creatives in the room. Thanks ENO and flautist Claire Wickes! ❤️

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Bringing some weirdness to London Handel Festival in March as part of their collab with @nonclsscl.bsky.social ! Harpsichordist Xiaowen Shang joins me for a set combining Handel with… very much not Handel ⚡️ 20/3 at Stone Nest alongside other fellow freaks! www.nonclassical.co.uk/events/arias...

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Arias Reimagined — nonclassical

Explore reimagined arias from Handel by artists inbetween the genre boundaries: Lotte Betts-Dean, Lore Lixenberg and Bianca Scout.

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Looking forward to being part of Hear And Now Festival in Amsterdam next month, performing @stuartmacrae.bsky.social (March 8) and Strauss 4 Letzte Lieder arranged for piano, horn and violin (March 9). t.co/uMg0WjP8fo

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Very verrry excited to be heading to New Music Dublin for the first time in April to premiere ‘Agency’, a new work by Donnacha Dennehy (!) + Vivier’s masterpiece ‘Bouchara’ alongside Ficino Ensemble !! Cannot wait for this one. April 6 at the NCH. www.newmusicdublin.ie/agency

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Agency | New Music Dublin 2025

Composed by one of the 20th century’s most remarkable figures, Claude Vivier’s colourful and vibrant work Bouchara is performed alongside a new commission by Donnacha Dennehy: Agency, a set of songs t...

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Next voice & guitar gig is coming up on March 1 at the Rachmaninoff Academy London — songs and arrangements from all over the world with the brilliant Dimitris Soukaras. t.co/3v3gWf1usx

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nonclassical @nonclsscl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

ARIAS REIMAGINED // 20.03.25 three performers reimagine songs of heartache, drama and passion with electronics, voice, harpsichord, movement + more ft. Bianca Scout / @lottebettsdean.bsky.social + Xiaowen Shang / Lore Lixenberg + Lore Amenabar Narrañaga tickets: www.stonenest.org/events/noncl...

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nonclassical x London Handel Festival: Arias Reimagined | Stone Nest

Boundary-pushing live events promoter and label nonclassical have been invited by the London Handel Festival to curate a night reimagining what Handel’s arias can be.

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

One month until this disc is released! The amazing James Way sings the complete Britten Canticles for @delphianrecords.com — it’s been a big joy to join him + Natalie Burch for Canticle II: ‘Abraham and Isaac’ over the last few years. I ADORE this piece, really v honoured to have recorded it!

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Returning to Leeds University concert series next month, this time with Marsyas Trio — Finnissy, Ravel, Weir, Bonis and a new piece from Ewan Campbell ! Feb 22: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/marsy...

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Marsyas Trio with Lotte Betts-Dean | University of Leeds International Concert Series

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I'm sorry my love but I didn't get this card posted today so it wouldn't reach you before you go away so that's why I've just handed it to you. I do want you to know that I love you and am thinking of you.

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Another massive & joyous two days with @delphianrecords.com complete! Jo Havlat and I are so happy to have officially documented our mutual obsession with international folksong. 💿 coming in 2026! Lovely also to be back in St Cuth’s where @stuartmacrae.bsky.social and I made our album!

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Back in London after a whirlwind 72 hours at Sydney Festival! Thanks to Daily Telegraph for this kind review: “…an extraordinary feat of stamina and control…formidable vocal technique…uncanny virtuosity…a fascinating, breathless smorgasbord.” www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/si...

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Now online: the film of my most recent recital at London Song Festival, a celebration of two pioneer poets, Amy Lowell and Gertrude Stein 🌈 with the utterly brilliant Harriet Burns and @nigelfoster.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFid...

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London Song Festival - Amy Lowell and Gertrude Stein concert, 6th December 2024

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Sydney!!! I am here!!! Let’s do this!!! My Sydney Festival show — part song recital, part solo voice show — is TONIGHT at Pier 2/3, co-presented by Australian Chamber Orchestra. Pianist Ronan Apcar is sounding utterly brilliant ! Join us for a wild ride ✌️ www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/lotte...

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Lotte Betts-Dean - Sydney Festival

A time-travelling tapestry tracing centuries of song

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A special day today as Jo Havlat and I record Brett Dean’s 2006 cycle ‘Poems and Prayers’, set to Michael Leunig’s beautiful words. Here are the two prayers. Thinking of Michael, wherever he is.

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Start the year with an hour of nonsense courtesy of Arthur Keegan, James Girling and me as we play the music game Quartet, for Arthur’s Quartet for Two Podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/5iW6...

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Bonus New Year Ep - "There's a Weird Glee About it!"

Quartet for Two - The Classical Music Game · Episode

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

@westcorkmusic.bsky.social has announced its 2025 festival (30th anniversary!!) and I’m very happy to be back for the 4th consecutive year 🥹 I’ll be singing Shostakovich and Ravel, and Brett and I are bringing our duo programme! www.westcorkmusic.ie/chamber-musi...

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Jan-Peter de Graaff @jpdegraaff.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Wishing all of my followers a beautiful Christmas and a hopefully less dark 2025! To guide a path out of the darkness, hereby a small fragment from my requiem, sang by the fantastic Elisabeth Hetherington and @lottebettsdean.bsky.social , acc. y Konstantyn Napolov www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLkK...

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Jan-Peter de Graaff: Quid sum miser (from 'Effugium', 2024)

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

finally sharing the programme for my Sydney Festival headline show next month!! join me + v good pianist Ronan Apcar for 75 fairly unhinged minutes, feat. WP’s by @lukeabbott.bsky.social, Isabella Gellis + new arrangements by us. Jan 16 ACO Pier2/3. www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/lotte...

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So happy to be returning to the wonderful Aldeburgh Festival next summer for two VERY special projects! • Colin Matthews’ first opera, ‘A Visit To Friends’ (June 13-14) • ‘Solitude with Schubert’ with George Fu (June 15) Tickets on sale soon! @askonasholt.bsky.social

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Just got my first ever proper royalty payment and am crying?! thanks to Ben Hogwood for helping me set it up finally. Never has such a comparatively small amount of money been so exciting (PLEASE BUY AND LISTEN TO 💿 EVERYONE!)

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Grüße aus Köln! Joining @Musikfabrik for the first time tonight to present Ian Wilson’s 50-min chamber work for voice, cello, violas, perc ‘voces amissae’ (2023) Tix are free and if you’re not in Cologne it will be live streamed, 8pm CEST! www.musikfabrik.eu/en/calendar/...

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Lost Voices | Ensemble Musikfabrik

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Askonas Holt @askonasholt.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Tonight, @lottebettsdean.bsky.social debuts with Ensemble Musikfabrik performing Ian Wilson's Voces amissae. Full details here: buff.ly/3ZA17ud

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Big thanks to Chamber Music Scotland - Sequoia, @stuartmacrae.bsky.social and I are one of the recipients of the Small Venues Touring Fund, enabling us to take the live version of our 2023 @delphianrecords.com album ‘Earth thy cold is keen’ around Scotland next year.

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This lucky duck has just spent 4 days in a beautiful house in Andalucía with Jo Havlat, woodshedding one of our fave programmes & giving a couple of concerts in preparation for our first @delphianrecords.com duo album 🤩 We’ll be doing a private London gig on Dec 19– DM if keen!

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Next month with Marsyas Trio — chamber works by Judith Weir, Ravel, Saint-Saëns and a long-awaited WP by Michael Finnissy (!!) for the Hay Music series. We are SO honoured that Michael and Judith will also be joining for a pre-concert talk. Jan 13, 3pm. www.haymusic.org/events/2025/...

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THE MARSYAS TRIO and LOTTE BETTS-DEAN : 'Echoes of a Distant Land' — Hay Music Trust

St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EB. Doors open 2.30pm. Refreshments. Our good friend Val Welbanks returns to Hay Music, on this occasion as a member of one of the UK's foremost mixed chamber ens...

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Sooooo excited to be joining London Sinfonietta for the first time next year, performing my beloved Berio Folk Songs in a prog that also includes Hannah Kendall and my pal Laurence Osborn! April 3 @southbankcentre.bsky.social 🖤 londonsinfonietta.org.uk/whats-on/hid... @askonasholt.bsky.social

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HIDDEN VOICES

Join the London Sinfonietta for the world premiere of a new composition by British contemporary classical composer Laurence Osborn, alongside works from Hannah Kendall and Luciano Berio on the importa...

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nigelfoster.bsky.social @nigelfoster.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A huge thank you to @lottebettsdean.bsky.social Harriet Burns @cnlester.bsky.social and Jack Redman for an incredible celebration of 2 gay poets, Amy Lowell and Gertrude Stein for the London Song Festival last nignt

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Tonight at London Song Festival, a recital with Harriet Burns and Nigel Foster celebrating queer love through, Amy Lowell and Gertrude Stein. I’ll be doing lots of readings of their stunning poetry + premiering a new Errollyn Wallen song, among many others! www.londonsongfestival.org/concerts-1

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Lotte Betts-Dean @lottebettsdean.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

More nice news from Presto Music — Brett’s Rooms of Elsinore on BIS (feat. my recording of Gertrude Fragments w Andrey Lebedev) is one of their 100 Recordings of the Year! It was also BBC Music Mag’s Choral & Song Choice for November 🖤 www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

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Brett Dean - Rooms of Elsinore

Brett Dean - Rooms of Elsinore. BIS: BIS2454. Buy SACD or download online. Jennifer France; Lotte Betts-Dean; Juho Pohjonen; James Crabb; Volker Hemken; Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Brett Dean

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