Lotte Betts-Dean

Lotte Betts-Dean is an Australian mezzo soprano based in the UK with a wide ranging repertoire and a passion for curation, programming and collaborative project development. Praised for her “irrepressible sense of drama and unmissable, urgent musicality” (The Guardian) and “arrestingly opulent voice” (Gramophone), Lotte is equally at home in chamber music, art song, contemporary repertoire of all kinds, early music, opera and narration. Lotte is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, an Ambassador for Donne UK — an organization supporting women in music — and won Young Artist of the Year at the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. Lotte is a regular at major festivals and venues across the UK, Australia and Europe, including Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Aldeburgh Festival, Oxford Song, West Cork Chamber Music and Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and operatic credits in baroque, 20th century and contemporary opera include Grand Théâtre de Genève, Bayerische Staatsoper and State Opera of South Australia. Recent recordings have been released on Delphian Records ( Earth, Thy Cold Is Keen, The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy and Canticle II, Op. 51: Abraham and Isaac ) Salmon Universe (@Endless Joy ) Another Timbre (Catherine Lamb’s parallaxis forma), NAXOS ( Roots: 21st Century Greek Music for Guitar) Divine Art Métier (Michael Finnissy: Alternative Readings ) and BIS ( Dean: Rooms of Elsinore ) Lotte is represented worldwide by Askonas Holt.