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Lotte returns to the LSF for the 5th consecutive year in a programme celebrating the centenary of composer and singer Madeleine Dring.
More info soon!
Lotte returns to the Netherlands with Joseph Havlat for a coffee recital of Sibelius, Clara Schumann, Ravel and De Falla at the Purmaryn Arts Centre. More Info HERE
To close an evening of minimalist works with the orchestra of Opera North, Lotte performs Jacob Cooper’s electronic ambient song cycle ‘Silver Threads’ – setting a haiku attributed to the famous Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō for voice and electronic track, expanded into a full cycle by poets Greg Alan Brownderville, Tarfia Faizullah, Kristin Kelly, Dora Malech, and Zach Savic.
Bookings and info HERE
Lotte joins Explore Ensemble for the Swiss premiere of Christian Mason’s new large scale song cycle with ensemble, theremin and electronics, ‘Hölderlin’s Madness’, at Schlossmediale Werdenberg.
Other repertoire Lotte will be performing includes works by Lawrence Dunn, Stuart MacRae, Morton Feldman and Nicholas Moroz’s arrangements of Hildegard von Bingen.
More info will be available HERE
After her 2020 appearance at the CIMF was sadly cancelled due to the pandemic, Lotte is delighted to join for Roland Peelman’s final festival as director. Lotte performs two concerts on April 30 (Voice Electric) and May 3 (works by Luigi Nono and Larry Sitsky).
More info HERE
Weaving together Scottish folk, medieval and modern influences with texts from the middle ages to the present day, Stuart MacRae’s recent album ‘Earth, thy cold is keen’ released on Delphian Records, has been universally praised by critics and audiences for its beguiling, intimate exploration of themes of life, death and nature.
Featuring Lotte alongside striking and delicate playing from Scottish string duo Sequoia, and harmonium from the composer, in this concert music from the album will be heard live for the very first time, interspersed with Scottish folk music from Sequoia.
Tickets for under 30s only £8.50.
Book HERE
Lotte performs her solo voice and electronics show Voice Electric after two days of leading workshops with composers at Leeds University. Alongside the existing repertoire she will premiere selected works by student composers.
Details and booking HERE
Lotte makes her role and house debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Weinberg’s 1968 Opera Die Passagierin, in the role of Vlasta.
Tobias Kratzer, director
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Performances on 10, 13, 16, 22, 25 March.
This show returns during the summer festival for performances on 13 and 16th July 2024.
More info HERE
Lotte joins the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Geoffrey Paterson for the full orchestral version of Berio’s Folksongs, in a Programme that also includes Wagner and Ligeti.
More info HERE
Returning to perform Dean’s piece based on letters written by Mary Stuart are the work's original performers from Oxford in 2021; Lotte joined by Armida Quartet. The piece perfectly matches Schumann’s settings of her poetic texts, and indeed Janáček’s piece based on his own letters.
Schumann - Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135
(arranged by Brett Dean for mezzo-soprano and string quartet)
Janáček - String Quartet 2 ‘Intimate Letters’
Dean - Madame ma bonne sœur for mezzo-soprano and string quartet
tickets and info HERE
£5 tickets available for under35s
Lotte joins pianist Cristian Sandrin for a recital of French songs:
G. Enescu - Sept Chansons de Clement Marot op. 15
Pauline Viardot - Selection of Songs
E. Satie - Three Songs
C. Debussy - Fêtes galantes (First volume)
Germaine Tailleferre - Six Chansons Françaises
M. Ravel - Melodies populaires grecques
More info here
Lotte joins Chamber Choir Ireland and Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla as alto soloist in two performances of Handel’s Messiah.
Details HERE
Explore Ensemble presents the premiere of a new Christian Mason song cycle featuring Lotte, plus works by John Croft and Beatrice Dillon as part of the Giga-Hertz-Prize Festival at ZKM Karlsruhe, co-produced with SWR Experimentalstudio Freiburg
John Croft — ...ne l'aura che trema
Beatrice Dillon — Seven Reorganisations
Christian Mason — Hölderlin’s Madness
more info HERE
A programme telling the story of Ursula and Ralph’s relationship told through Ralph’s songs and settings of Ursula’s poetry along with Ursula and Ralph’s own words taken from his letters and her biography of him and other sources.
Lotte is joined by Nigel Foster (piano) Kieran Rayner (baritone) and two phenomenal actors.
more info HERE
Ahead of their Delphian recording, Lotte and James present their Wessex Songs programme of Thomas Hardy settings at Music At The Green in Glasgow.
Details available in due course HERE.
Lotte joins the Barnes Choir as alto soloist in both Vivaldi and Pergolesi’s Magnificats. Julian Collings conducts.
This session, in the atmospheric and candlelit Crypt of SMITF, is an encounter between two of the greatest English singer-songwriters, each a genius of his time and both renowned for beautiful melancholy.
Lotte sings favourite numbers from each, with Dimitris Soukaras on classical, electric and steel-string guitars.
Tickets HERE
Lotte joins Nigel Foster for a programme celebrating Walter de La Mare. More details in due course HERE.
Lotte joins accordionist Ryan Corbett for a wide-reaching recital in Britten’s library at the Red House. Programme includes everything from Björk to Brahms, Ravel to Radiohead, Josquin de Prez to Joni Mitchell.
More details and exact timings to come.
Lotte joins her father Brett for her Madrid concert debut, in a programme of voice-viola duets including works by Vaughan-Williams, Stuart MacRae, Sally Beamish, Alberto Posadas, Paul Hindemith, Brett Dean and more.
Information and tickets HERE.
Lotte brings her acclaimed solo show VOICE ELECTRIC to Oxford! Together with video artist Purple Taiko, Lotte developed this show for solo voice, electronics and vintage CRT monitors for Aldeburgh Festival 2022 and subsequently Britten Pears Arts’ Festival of New.
VOICE ELECTRIC includes groundbreaking works by Luigi Nono and Kurt Schwitters alongside newer works by Kaija Saariaho, Erin Gee, Stuart MacRae and Mathis Saunier. Using analogue processing and effects to create a visual collage of lo-fi imagery, textures and colour, Purple Taiko’s visuals complete a thrilling evening.
Tickets HERE.
As part of the newly renamed Oxford International Song Festival, Lotte features in a Recital celebrating the artist Tom Phillips, including his own graphic scores; music that inspired his artworks, including by Eric Satie and John Cage; and music that he loved, including songs by Schubert and Schumann.
Lotte joins Joanna MacGregor, one of the pre-eminent pianists of today who is particularly acclaimed for her insightful performances of contemporary music, and Well-known actor Samuel West reading extracts of Tom Phillip’s writings.
Tickets HERE
THIS RECITAL HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO JANUARY 17 2024 (due to uncertainty surrounding TFL strikes on Oct 6)
Lotte joins acclaimed Romanian pianist Cristian Sandrin in recital. Programme to be announced. Details will be available HERE in due course.
update this festival has been cancelled
Lotte brings her solo voice and electronics show Voice Electric to Berlin, for Oxford Song’s sister Festival LiedFest Berlin Oxford.
More information announced soon HERE.
Premiered at the Oxford Lieder Festival 2022, this eclectic and fun programme spans from Renaissance music to Radiohead, via some of the greatest lyricists of the Romantic era. Lotte joins exceptional accordionist Ryan Corbett for a programme including everything from Björk to Brahms, Schubert to Caroline Shaw, Josquin de Prez to Joni Mitchell.
LIMITED Seats or standing tickets available, to enjoy the performance at the bar. The bar will stay open after the music is over and the kitchen will be operating as usual for a tasty selection of small plates.
Book HERE
Lotte joins the acclaimed Germany-based Linos Trio as featured guest artist at their annual festival in Cologne. Repertoire includes a new arrangement of Strauss’ 4 Letzte Lieder, as well as Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Purcell’s An Evening Hymn.
September 15 (Pierrot Lunaire): CLICK HERE
September 16: (Strauss, Purcell): CLICK HERE
Lotte also joins the trio for 2 family concerts during the festival.
Lotte steps in for Kate Royal in songs by Madeleine Dring, alongside Marianna Shirinyan. This all-female programme also includes works by Amy Beach and Henriette Bosmans.
Details and tickets - https://picmf.org/programme-2023/
Lotte joins forces with her father Brett Dean and Welsh pianist, Jams Coleman, for a Coffee Concert of works by Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Rubbra, Rhian Samuel, Michael Berkeley and a new work for voice and viola by Brett.
Later that day she joins Consone Quartet for Respighi’s Il tramonto in the Festival Finale.
Lotte joins acclaimed French/Australian pianist David Selig for a diverse recital of lieder, chanson and cabaret at Festival Musique en Écrins in the French Alps.
Details HERE.
(Lotte will then be on summer break from August 2-27)
Lotte’s debut album on Delphian Records is released today — a collaboration disc with Scottish composer Stuart MacRae and string duo Sequoia.
In 2021, Stuart heard a recorded performance by Lotte of The Lif of this World, his 2008 setting of an anonymous Middle English lyric. Entranced by the way she shaped its phrases and ornamentation, he immediately began to conceive new works for her voice, solo or lightly accompanied, as well as to bring to completion several other works-in-progress.
This extraordinary flurry of activity – eight vocal works completed in less than two years – is captured here, and reveals the extent to which MacRae’s recent music has expanded to embrace folk-like simplicity alongside the modernist techniques of his earlier work. Similar qualities are found in two works for the violin-and-cello duo Sequoia, while MacRae himself appears on harmonium and contributes electronics to two of the vocal solos.
More info HERE