Lotte Betts-Dean

<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean chats about Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, Caroline Shaw’s Cant voi l’aube, and how 70s disco shaped her musical taste.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Useful links:</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ECS9p9HuydOc4lVpW86OK?si=eZ0YUAyHQUuVcAtqmzXHqA">Spotify playlist for Lotte’s pieces</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BRom90ebzqKrDudeVZtYo">Spotify playlist for main pieces</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rzB0a4C4nNjO0MR8VLQdQ">Spotify playlist for final question pieces</a> </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Other useful links:</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Berio">Composer Luciano Berio</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://anam.com.au/">Australian National Academy of Music</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://www.ensembleqaustralia.com/">Ensemble Q</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Berberian">Mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0TTd2roL6s">Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III for solo female voice, premiered by Berio’s wife, Cathy Berberian</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dNLAhL46xM">Video of Cathy Berberian performing her Stripsody (showing the score)</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html">Father of the American folk revival, Pete Seeger’s obituary in the NY Times</a> </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://carolineshaw.com/">Composer Caroline Shaw</a> </span></p><p><span style