A very warm welcome back to Lotte Betts-Dean following her hugely appreciated appearance with the Marsyas Trio in January this year. She returns with the Trio of Helen Vidovich - flute/piccolo, Val Welbanks - cello and Chad Vindin - piano and is joined on this occasion by Raymond Brien - clarinet/bass clarinet and Patrick Dawkins - violin/viola/piano.

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Programme

Joseph Haydn:  Symphony No. 104 arr. Clementi for flute, violin, cello and piano

Claude Debussy:  Cello Sonata (cello and piano)

Claude Debussy:  ‘Colombine’, ‘Pierrot ‘and ‘Clair de lune’ (from Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse)

Marika Hackman:  Claude’s Girl

Arnold Schoenberg:  Pierro Lunaire in version for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin/viola, cello and piano

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 she won Young Artist of the Year at the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.  She 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.

A Young Artist alumnus of Britten Pears Arts (2022), City Music Foundation (2019) and Oxford Lieder (2020) Lotte has recorded for Naxos, Divine Art Métier, Another Timbre, Platoon, BIS and Tall Poppies, among others, as well as multiple albums for Delphian Records.  She studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, as well as completing a Fellowship at Australian National Academy of Music.