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 recently won Young Artist of the Year at the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. Lotte is a regular at major festivals across the UK, Australia and Europe, including Aldeburgh, St Magnus, Oxford Song 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. She studied at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. Recent recordings have been released on the Delphian Records, Another Timbre, NAXOS (alongside Dimitris Soukaras) and Divine Art Métier labels, with further albums due for release on Platoon, BIS and Delphian. 

Lotte Betts-Dean

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