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Described as singing ‘with warmth, joy and an open heart’ Lotte returns with guitarist Dimitris Soukaras. ‘Travels with a Guitar’ leads us from the haunting tunes of John Dowland via guitar music from Greece to the vibrant rhythms of Manuel de Falla.

Australian vocalist Lotte Betts-Dean is a versatile mezzo soprano whose performance experience encompasses contemporary repertoire, early music, art song, opera, experimental music and non-classical collaborations. Lotte won the 2019 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform and both the 2020 Overseas Prize as well as the Audrey Strange Prize for an outstanding singer at the Royal Over-Seas League Competition. She will be accompanied on guitar by  Dimitris Soukaras who is a D’addario Artist, a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, a beneficiary of the Stradivari Trust, winner of the IGF’s Young Artists Platform, and a Eurostring Artist 2018/19. He has received 20 prizes in international and national competitions, most recently he won the “David Russell” Guitar Prize adjudicated by the maestro himself.