Will be playing SJQ on the 25th May w/ @hiimjq.bsky.social & @richardpike.bsky.social for the release of @lukeabbott.bsky.social, @lottebettsdean.bsky.social & Jack Wyllie's new album 'Endless Joy' on Salmon Universe. Perfect bank holiday weekend gig if you're in/around London that weekend...

Next gig is in London this Thursday! Messiaen’s HARAWI with Jo Havlat, in preparation for our performance at NNF next month. 6.30pm at Jo’s series at the gorgeous St Jude’s Balham. Tix are pay what u want at the door!

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Tonight at Ludlow English Song Weekend— a cornucopia of glorious English songs for mezzo, viola and piano (and combinations thereof) with Brett and Iain Burnside. Always a joy to share the stage with my dad, and this evening will be a special one! facebook.com/events/s/buz...

Introducing…. • everything you’ve ever lived • SO excited to share the cover + title of my next album with @delphianrecords.com, a duo disc with Dimitris Soukaras - coming this September! Art by my brilliant mother Heather Betts, photo by Nik Matiushev, design by Delphian’s Will Coates-Gibson ✨

@lottebettsdean.bsky.social debuts at New Music Dublin performing the world premiere of Donnacha Dennehy's Agency. Full details here: buff.ly/uOpk4rJ

Tonight sees @lottebettsdean.bsky.social debut with the London Sinfonietta performing Berio's Folk Songs. Full details here: buff.ly/Jn5WwV9

Lovely review in Gramophone of James Way’s Britten Canticles album on @delphianrecords.com - “…Way’s partnership with the eloquent Australian mezzo-soprano effortlessly generates a keen dramatic instinct… this issue should not be missed.” www.gramophone.co.uk/reviews/revi...

It was lovely to record another ep of Radio 3’s This Classical Life, broadcast last Saturday. You can listen to it for another 24 days here👇🏼or via @bbcsounds.bsky.social. I brought some Donnacha Dennehy, Cassandra Miller, Caetano Veloso & The Supremes covering Joni. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

TONIGHT at Stone Nest!!!

A joyful and uplifting chat about what makes music great, and what it's like to set up camp in the spaces between genres 🎪 @lottebettsdean.bsky.social chats to Jess Gillam in This Classical Life, featuring @stuartmacrae.bsky.social (and some cracking Telemann, too) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Totally beside myself to be returning to Bayerische Staatsoper next season for something v special (and personal!) — Brett Dean’s third opera, Of One Blood🩸 Libretto by Heather Betts (!), Claus Guth directs, Jurowski conducts. May 10-25 and June 27/29. www.staatsoper.de/en/productio...

this thursday // arias reimagined ✨ experience reimagined handel arias through live electronics and bold new interpretations. ft. @lottebettsdean.bsky.social + Xiaowen Shang, Lore Lixenberg + Lore Amenabar Larrañaga, and Bianca Scout 💥 20 march at stone nest 👉 www.stonenest.org/events/noncl...

Coming to Cambridge Festival with Marsyas Trio and a brand new Ewan Campbell cycle next Weds Eve, with a pre-concert talk about the process of translation between languages, cultures and artforms. www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/trans...

Hi from gorgeous sunny Amsterdam! Tonight at Hear And Now Festival I’ll be singing 2 works w strings from my @stuartmacrae.bsky.social album + Andriessen’s ‘Een Lied van der Zee’ for solo voice. Vasks, Crumb + Strauss complete the gig. 8pm Vondelkerk www.ticketkantoor.nl/shop/HearAnd...

Huge thanks @prestomusic.bsky.social for featuring @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social and James Way / Natalie Burch / @lottebettsdean.bsky.social on today's New Release Roundup 💖 🎶 www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...

A big joy to share the stage with two of my favourite musicians last night, Brett Dean aka Dad and Julius Drake 💛 thanks to Shelley and Peter for having us at their gorgeous house concert series in Devon, and to Dora the fox red lab for the cuddles. More from this trio soon!

This Saturday at Leeds Uni with Marsyas Trio - Finnissy, Ravel, Weir and a Ewan Campbell premiere! concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/marsy...

Back home and straight into it with a visit to the House of Lords yesterday courtesy of ENO, to celebrate the one and only Thea Musgrave. A huge honour to meet her and sing her flute-voice duo ‘Primavera’ for her, and for many wonderful creatives in the room. Thanks ENO and flautist Claire Wickes! ❤️

Bringing some weirdness to London Handel Festival in March as part of their collab with @nonclsscl.bsky.social ! Harpsichordist Xiaowen Shang joins me for a set combining Handel with… very much not Handel ⚡️ 20/3 at Stone Nest alongside other fellow freaks! www.nonclassical.co.uk/events/arias...

Looking forward to being part of Hear And Now Festival in Amsterdam next month, performing @stuartmacrae.bsky.social (March 8) and Strauss 4 Letzte Lieder arranged for piano, horn and violin (March 9). t.co/uMg0WjP8fo

Very verrry excited to be heading to New Music Dublin for the first time in April to premiere ‘Agency’, a new work by Donnacha Dennehy (!) + Vivier’s masterpiece ‘Bouchara’ alongside Ficino Ensemble !! Cannot wait for this one. April 6 at the NCH. www.newmusicdublin.ie/agency

Next voice & guitar gig is coming up on March 1 at the Rachmaninoff Academy London — songs and arrangements from all over the world with the brilliant Dimitris Soukaras. t.co/3v3gWf1usx

ARIAS REIMAGINED // 20.03.25 three performers reimagine songs of heartache, drama and passion with electronics, voice, harpsichord, movement + more ft. Bianca Scout / @lottebettsdean.bsky.social + Xiaowen Shang / Lore Lixenberg + Lore Amenabar Narrañaga tickets: www.stonenest.org/events/noncl...

One month until this disc is released! The amazing James Way sings the complete Britten Canticles for @delphianrecords.com — it’s been a big joy to join him + Natalie Burch for Canticle II: ‘Abraham and Isaac’ over the last few years. I ADORE this piece, really v honoured to have recorded it!

Lotte Betts-Dean weaving some Finnissy magic: m.youtube.com/watch?v=VuUY...

Returning to Leeds University concert series next month, this time with Marsyas Trio — Finnissy, Ravel, Weir, Bonis and a new piece from Ewan Campbell ! Feb 22: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/marsy...

I'm sorry my love but I didn't get this card posted today so it wouldn't reach you before you go away so that's why I've just handed it to you. I do want you to know that I love you and am thinking of you.

Another massive & joyous two days with @delphianrecords.com complete! Jo Havlat and I are so happy to have officially documented our mutual obsession with international folksong. 💿 coming in 2026! Lovely also to be back in St Cuth’s where @stuartmacrae.bsky.social and I made our album!

Back in London after a whirlwind 72 hours at Sydney Festival! Thanks to Daily Telegraph for this kind review: “…an extraordinary feat of stamina and control…formidable vocal technique…uncanny virtuosity…a fascinating, breathless smorgasbord.” www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/si...

Now online: the film of my most recent recital at London Song Festival, a celebration of two pioneer poets, Amy Lowell and Gertrude Stein 🌈 with the utterly brilliant Harriet Burns and @nigelfoster.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFid...

Sydney!!! I am here!!! Let’s do this!!! My Sydney Festival show — part song recital, part solo voice show — is TONIGHT at Pier 2/3, co-presented by Australian Chamber Orchestra. Pianist Ronan Apcar is sounding utterly brilliant ! Join us for a wild ride ✌️ www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/lotte...

This afternoon 3pm for Hay Music — Finnissy, Weir, Ravel, Saint-Saëns and Bonis with Marsyas Trio, plus a pre-concert chat featuring both Finnissy and Weir! www.haymusic.org/events/2025/...

A special day today as Jo Havlat and I record Brett Dean’s 2006 cycle ‘Poems and Prayers’, set to Michael Leunig’s beautiful words. Here are the two prayers. Thinking of Michael, wherever he is.

Start the year with an hour of nonsense courtesy of Arthur Keegan, James Girling and me as we play the music game Quartet, for Arthur’s Quartet for Two Podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/5iW6...

@westcorkmusic.bsky.social has announced its 2025 festival (30th anniversary!!) and I’m very happy to be back for the 4th consecutive year 🥹 I’ll be singing Shostakovich and Ravel, and Brett and I are bringing our duo programme! www.westcorkmusic.ie/chamber-musi...

Wishing all of my followers a beautiful Christmas and a hopefully less dark 2025! To guide a path out of the darkness, hereby a small fragment from my requiem, sang by the fantastic Elisabeth Hetherington and @lottebettsdean.bsky.social , acc. y Konstantyn Napolov www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLkK...

finally sharing the programme for my Sydney Festival headline show next month!! join me + v good pianist Ronan Apcar for 75 fairly unhinged minutes, feat. WP’s by @lukeabbott.bsky.social, Isabella Gellis + new arrangements by us. Jan 16 ACO Pier2/3. www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/lotte...

So happy to be returning to the wonderful Aldeburgh Festival next summer for two VERY special projects! • Colin Matthews’ first opera, ‘A Visit To Friends’ (June 13-14) • ‘Solitude with Schubert’ with George Fu (June 15) Tickets on sale soon! @askonasholt.bsky.social

Just got my first ever proper royalty payment and am crying?! thanks to Ben Hogwood for helping me set it up finally. Never has such a comparatively small amount of money been so exciting (PLEASE BUY AND LISTEN TO 💿 EVERYONE!)

Grüße aus Köln! Joining @Musikfabrik for the first time tonight to present Ian Wilson’s 50-min chamber work for voice, cello, violas, perc ‘voces amissae’ (2023) Tix are free and if you’re not in Cologne it will be live streamed, 8pm CEST! www.musikfabrik.eu/en/calendar/...

Tonight, @lottebettsdean.bsky.social debuts with Ensemble Musikfabrik performing Ian Wilson's Voces amissae. Full details here: https://buff.ly/3ZA17ud

Big thanks to Chamber Music Scotland - Sequoia, @stuartmacrae.bsky.social and I are one of the recipients of the Small Venues Touring Fund, enabling us to take the live version of our 2023 @delphianrecords.com album ‘Earth thy cold is keen’ around Scotland next year.

This lucky duck has just spent 4 days in a beautiful house in Andalucía with Jo Havlat, woodshedding one of our fave programmes & giving a couple of concerts in preparation for our first @delphianrecords.com duo album 🤩 We’ll be doing a private London gig on Dec 19– DM if keen!

Next month with Marsyas Trio — chamber works by Judith Weir, Ravel, Saint-Saëns and a long-awaited WP by Michael Finnissy (!!) for the Hay Music series. We are SO honoured that Michael and Judith will also be joining for a pre-concert talk. Jan 13, 3pm. www.haymusic.org/events/2025/...

Sooooo excited to be joining London Sinfonietta for the first time next year, performing my beloved Berio Folk Songs in a prog that also includes Hannah Kendall and my pal Laurence Osborn! April 3 @southbankcentre.bsky.social 🖤 londonsinfonietta.org.uk/whats-on/hid... @askonasholt.bsky.social

A huge thank you to @lottebettsdean.bsky.social Harriet Burns @cnlester.bsky.social and Jack Redman for an incredible celebration of 2 gay poets, Amy Lowell and Gertrude Stein for the London Song Festival last nignt

Tonight at London Song Festival, a recital with Harriet Burns and Nigel Foster celebrating queer love through, Amy Lowell and Gertrude Stein. I’ll be doing lots of readings of their stunning poetry + premiering a new Errollyn Wallen song, among many others! www.londonsongfestival.org/concerts-1

More nice news from Presto Music — Brett’s Rooms of Elsinore on BIS (feat. my recording of Gertrude Fragments w Andrey Lebedev) is one of their 100 Recordings of the Year! It was also BBC Music Mag’s Choral & Song Choice for November 🖤 www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...