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Betts-Dean
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Betts-Dean
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...impressive control, an irrepressible sense of drama and extraordinary self-assurance...Betts-Dean manoeuvred unflustered between registers and vocal modes with an unbroken sense of line and an unmissable, urgent musicality...she’s certainly one to watch.
-Flora Willson, The Guardian
b.1990
Berlin, Germany
Based
London, UK
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Melbourne, Australia
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She is a force in music to be reckoned with - Jane Manning must be glowing from heaven.
-NICHOLAS DANIEL OBE
Welcome to the website of Australian vocalist Lotte Betts-Dean.
Lotte is a mezzo soprano and vocalist who has established herself as a leading interpreter of contemporary repertoire, art song and chamber music. She is equally at home in early music, vocal ensemble, opera, experimental music and non-classical collaborations, and has a passion for curation, programming, and interdisciplinary projects.
Lotte was recently elected as Ambassador for Donne UK, and in 2022 was made Associate (ARAM) of the Royal Academy of Music, an honour reserved for alumni who have contributed significantly to the music profession.
Lotte is a Young Artist alumnus of Britten Pears Arts, City Music Foundation and Oxford Lieder, having won the 2019 Oxford Lieder Platform alongside Joseph Havlat. Other competition successes include the 2020 Overseas Prize as well as the Audrey Strange Prize for an outstanding singer at the Royal Over-Seas League Competition, the inaugural New Elizabethans Award in 2019, and the 2018 Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Prize.
Lotte is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music (Master of Arts- 2016) and the Conservatorium of Music at Melbourne University (Bachelor of Music- 2012), and is an Australian National Academy of Music Fellowship Alumna (2014).
Read her full biography here, or scroll down for the latest news.
2020-21 FILMS
Since March 2020, Lotte has taken part in and produced over 25 concert filmings, broadcasts and pieces of content, many of which are available to view for free online. Head to the VIDEO PAGE to check out some of the past two years’ content!
Lotte would like to thank several organisations for their support during 2020, especially Freelance Artist Relief Australia, HelpMusicians UK, Australia Council for the Arts and Olgarhythm.
Lotte performing Stravinsky’s Persephone with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis, July 2019.
Dress by Melbourne designer Gwendolynne
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Betts-Dean’s lovely mezzo and winning stage manner managed to enter entirely into the character of each of her songs.
-Hugh Canning, The SUNDAY TIMES
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latest news
August 2023: Lotte is announced as the newest Ambassador for Donne UK, a charitable foundation dedicated to promoting gender equality in the music industry
Lotte joins Explore Ensemble in new recordings of works by Catherine Lamb - album to be released on Another Timbre late 2023
July 2023: Stuart MacRae’s newest album, ‘Earth, thy cold is keen’, a collaboration with Lotte and Sequoia Duo, is released on Delphian Records to critical acclaim
March 2023: Bayerische Staatsoper announces coming season including Weinberg’s Die Passagierin, in which Lotte makes her house and role debut as Vlasta
March 2023: Swiss debut with Grand Théâtre de Genève / Ensemble Contrechamps as The Teacher in Matthew Shlomowitz’ electronic chamber opera Electric Dreams
A new all-Michael Finnissy disc announced together with Marsyas Trio and pianist Joseph Havlat - album to be released on Divine Art Métier late 2023
Lotte is announced as Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in the 2022 Honours
September 2022: Lotte joins renowned artist William Kentridge in a performance of Schwitters’ Ursonate at the Royal Academy of Arts
Summer 2022 sees Lotte appear at Aldeburgh Festival, St Magnus International Festival and West Cork Chamber Music Festival in performances of major modern works including Peter Maxwell Davies’ monodrama The Medium, Messiaen’s Harawi, Crumb’s American Songbook 4: Wings of Destiny, Ligeti’s Sippal dobbal nadihegeduvel and Nono’s La fabbrica illuminata
Greek guitarist Dimitris Soukaras’ debut album ROOTS - featuring Lotte in a new cycle by Philippos Tsalahouris - is released on Naxos Records to critical acclaim
April 2022: Spanish debut as Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas at International Bach Festival in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
Ensemble Q releases Phantasy and Folksong, a live album featuring Lotte in Berio’s Folksongs
March 2022: Role debut as Irene in Handel’s Theodora at Muziekgebouw Amsterdam
Lotte Betts-Dean is an accredited member of ISM.
Title page photos by Shingo Gibson-Suzuki
Paintings in title page photo by Heather Betts